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Helping humanity : American policy and genocide rescue / Keith Pomakoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pomakoy, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarianism.
- Genocide.
- Genocide--Government policy.
- United States--Foreign relations--19th century.
- United States.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- Genocide--Government policy--United States--Case studies.
- Genocide--Case studies.
- Humanitarianism--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- Helping Humanity: American Policy and Genocide Rescue offers a scholarly examination of America's complicated reactions to genocide and genocide rescue. It provides a synthesis of humanitarian concerns within the broader narrative of American foreign policy that gives an underappreciated policy consideration the attention it is due. This book will serve as an approachable work both for those interested in genocide and specialists in foreign policy.
- Contents:
- Strictly speaking, the term genocide only fits the Holocaust : what is genocide?
- American philanthropy
- The good Samaritan : America and the war with Spain
- They fear that the matter will have to run its course : America and the Armenian tragedy
- No cardinals in Russia : America and the terror-famine
- Jews, Zionists and social workers : American rescue policy in the caldron of World War II
- The United Nations is silent : facing genocide in the Cold War
- The world now stands as one : novus ordo seclorum.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739139189
- 0739139185
- OCLC:
- 693814685
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