The Historiographic Perversion
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| Management number | 233571243 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | $15.15 | Model Number | 233571243 | ||
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Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events.Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can beand are now beingperpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, turning monstrous deeds into nonevents. Genocide, this book makes us see, is in one sense the destruction of the archive. It relies on the historiographic perversion. Read more
| ASIN | B00AFGCAAM |
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| XRay | Not Enabled |
| ISBN13 | 978-0231521628 |
| Language | English |
| File size | 1.4 MB |
| Page Flip | Enabled |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Print length | 217 pages |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | September 2, 2009 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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