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Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century

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Originally published
  
1981

Author
  
Leo Kuper

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ISBN
  
9780300031201 1983 Yale University Press reprint

Website
  
Yale University Press Google Books

Genocide books
  
The History and Sociology, Genocide: A Sociologi, Genocide: A Compreh, Genocide: Conceptual and Histo, The Historiography of Genoci

Genocide: Its political use in the Twentieth Century is a book by the sociologist Leo Kuper, about genocide. It is widely cited, and is included on reading lists for related courses of study at several universities, making it a notable work.

The historical examples studied include the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide, and the Burundian Genocide of 1972.

Reception

Genocide was reviewed in a number of periodicals, including The New York Times and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

References

Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century Wikipedia