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XII The Lonely Voice of Raphael Lemkin, 1949–59 (nos. 353–365)

Anton Weiss-Wendt

Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. His recent publications include Racial Science in Hitler's Europe, 1939-1945 (2013) and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives : The Ideology of a Humanitarian Treaty, 1949–1988

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...To separate Raphael Lemkin a scholar and individual from Lemkin a lobbyist and schemer is next to impossible. This section features a selection of documents that show Lemkin’s many sides, first and foremost the human. After all, the power...

Religious Teleologies, Modernity and Violence: The Case of John Brown

Carola Dietze

Carola Dietze

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Historical Teleologies in The Modern World

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...I am grateful to the editors, especially to Henning Trüper, as well as to Sabine Dworog, Thomas Etzemüller, Martin H. Geyer, Michael Hochgeschwender, Anke Klatt and Friedrich Lenger for conversations on this topic or related issues and/or...

Genocide

Eugenia Gay

Eugenia Gay is Assistant Professor at the University of Córdoba, Argentina Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...Introduction The word genocide is composed of the Greek prefix genos, meaning “race” or “tribe,” and the Latin suffix cide, which translates as “killing.” It was introduced by polish jurist Raphael Lemkin in his book Axis Rule in Occupied...

Nominal Slavery, Free People of Colour and Enslavement Requests: Slavery and Freedom at the ‘Edges’ of the Regime in the Antebellum South

Emily West

Emily West

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The Many Faces of Slavery: New Perspectives on Slave Ownership and Experiences in the Americas

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...In 1856, Virginia became the first Southern state to formalize legislation on so called ‘ voluntary slavery’ (the term is contentious), in keeping with its reputation as a torchbearer for laws about enslavement. Before this time...

Urban Revolution

Luis M. Sierra

Luis M. Sierra is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Global Initiatives Office at Thomas More College, USA, where he teaches World Civilizations and US History as well as graduate classes in Environmental History, US and Latin American Relations, The History of Modern Sports and Piracy and Black Markets. His research focuses on urbanization and indigenous politics in La Paz, Bolivia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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La Paz’s Colonial Specters : Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900–52

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...Around midnight on April 8, 1952, MNR militants arrived at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and linked up with student leaders of the youth wing. Armed MNR militants took their stations at predetermined locations in La Paz. In La Paz...

Conclusion

Luis M. Sierra

Luis M. Sierra is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Global Initiatives Office at Thomas More College, USA, where he teaches World Civilizations and US History as well as graduate classes in Environmental History, US and Latin American Relations, The History of Modern Sports and Piracy and Black Markets. His research focuses on urbanization and indigenous politics in La Paz, Bolivia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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La Paz’s Colonial Specters : Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900–52

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...By 1952, indigenous neighborhood residents had transformed La Paz as a physical, social, and political space. The city’s indigenous neighborhoods became rich social spaces where residents joined lay brotherhoods and made urban festivals...

“Social Worries, Not Legal Theory”

Luis M. Sierra

Luis M. Sierra is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Global Initiatives Office at Thomas More College, USA, where he teaches World Civilizations and US History as well as graduate classes in Environmental History, US and Latin American Relations, The History of Modern Sports and Piracy and Black Markets. His research focuses on urbanization and indigenous politics in La Paz, Bolivia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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La Paz’s Colonial Specters : Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900–52

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...Introduction In 1937, Pastor Loza, a milliner who lived on Buenos Aires Street in the Gran Poder indigenous neighborhood, had a disagreement with Felipe Endara, who lived on Tumusla Street...

The Extramuro, History, Memory, and Urbanization in La Paz, Bolivia, 1900–52

Luis M. Sierra

Luis M. Sierra is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Global Initiatives Office at Thomas More College, USA, where he teaches World Civilizations and US History as well as graduate classes in Environmental History, US and Latin American Relations, The History of Modern Sports and Piracy and Black Markets. His research focuses on urbanization and indigenous politics in La Paz, Bolivia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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La Paz’s Colonial Specters : Urbanization, Migration, and Indigenous Political Participation, 1900–52

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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...In 1918, an editorial in the El Figaro newspaper of La Paz argued that the city council and municipal government needed to outlaw prostitution within the city’s walls. Some of the material in this chapter is based on L. M. Sierra...

XII We Charge Genocide: The Campaign to Indict the United States for Racial Discrimination, 1951–52 (nos. 315–352)

Anton Weiss-Wendt

Anton Weiss-Wendt is Research Professor at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway. His recent publications include Racial Science in Hitler's Europe, 1939-1945 (2013) and The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Documents on the Genocide Convention from the American, British, and Russian Archives : The Ideology of a Humanitarian Treaty, 1949–1988

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

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...One of the factors that precluded the United States from indicting the Soviet Union for genocide before the United Nations was potential countercharges (docs. 245, 254, 258, 270). Such charges were indeed filed, though not by the Communist...

KZ Syndrome/PTSD

Ralf Futselaar

Ralf Futselaar is a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and Endowed Professor of Social History of War, Mass Violence and Genocide at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...Introduction The KZ-Syndrome, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a myriad of other terms are used almost interchangeably to describe the long-lasting and often late-onset mental health consequences of extreme mental stress...