Uniqueness as denial: The politics of genocide scholarship

Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 245-290

  Stannard, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429037009-15     Document Type: Chapter

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