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The Historiographic Perversion.

Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events. Nichanian's book ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nichanian, Marc
Otros Autores: Anidjar, Gil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events. Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can be-and are now being-perpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, t.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (217 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231521628
0231521626