Helping humanity : American policy and genocide rescue / Keith Pomakoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomakoy, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Government policy--United States--Case studies.

Genocide.

Genocide--Case studies.

Humanitarianism--Case studies.

Humanitarianism.

United States--Foreign relations--19th century.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-228) and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-20767-2

0-7391-3920-7

1-280-67964-6

9786613656575

0-7391-6905-X

OCLC:

845245481