Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention
By: John Cooper
Edition: First published in paperback.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York,NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781137427373
Subjects: Genocide; Case studies; History; Prevention; Congresses; Human rights workers; Biography; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Notes: Includes new preface and its bibliographical references.

Includes notes and bibliographical references (pages 283-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Formative years in Poland; title: Escape from Poland; title: Early years in the United States; title: The publication of his master work and the Nuremberg Trial; title: The United Nations Resolution on Genocide; title: 1947,the first draft of the Convention; title: Private life; title: Yale and Geneva; title: Paris, preliminary discussion of the convention; title: The first reading of the Convention; title: The Convention is adopted; title: The international campaign for ratification of the Convention; title: The United States Senate and the Convention; title: The Genocide Convention : its supporters and enemies; title: The history of genocide; title: The history of genocide : case studies; title: Closing years.