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Book

A little matter of genocide : holocaust and denial in the Americas, 1492 to the present

Call Number

  • 970.00497 C5635 (CEN, OSH)

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Languages

Text in English.

Publication Information

San Francisco : City Lights Books, ©1997.

Physical Description

xix, 531 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents

  • Introduction : encountering the American holocaust : the politics of affirmation and denial
  • Assaults on truth and memory : holocaust denial in context
  • Lie for lie : linkages between holocaust deniers and proponents of the "uniqueness of the Jewish experience in World War II"
  • Deconstructing the Columbus myth : was the "great discoverer" Italian or Spanish, Nazi or Jew?
  • Genocide in the Americas : landmarks from North and South America, 1492-1992
  • "Nits make lice" : the extermination of North American Indians, 1607-1996
  • Cold War impacts on Native North America : the political economy of radioactive colonization
  • The United States and the Genocide Convention : the saga of an outlaw state, 1948-1988
  • Defining the unthinkable : towards a viable understanding of genocide.

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