Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part IMaterial matrices
- Part IIPopulation and disease
- Part IIIPolitics
- 11The evolution of international law
- 12On nationalism
- 13Assessing imperialism
- 14Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power
- 15Decolonization and its legacy
- 16Genocide
- 17Communism and fascism
- Part IVWorld regions
- Index
- References
16 - Genocide
from Part III - Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part IMaterial matrices
- Part IIPopulation and disease
- Part IIIPolitics
- 11The evolution of international law
- 12On nationalism
- 13Assessing imperialism
- 14Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power
- 15Decolonization and its legacy
- 16Genocide
- 17Communism and fascism
- Part IVWorld regions
- Index
- References
Summary
The one thing one can say with certainty about the term genocide is that it has come into ubiquitous and general usage in a matter of decades. Genocide becomes simply a short-hand for proclaiming a horror at some profanation or abuse of the things. One would want to note that something of Lemkin's original formulation carried through into the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. The destruction of close to six million European Jews, or something in the region of 72 per cent in the countries under Nazi hegemony, is remarkable for more than just the numbers involved. An argument for the singularity of the 'Holocaust', however, would have to be weighed against evidence of synchronous or near-synchronous mass killings by several states either also against Jews, or against other ethnic groups.
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