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Landscaping the Human Garden
Landscaping the Human Garden Twentieth- Century Population Management in a Comparative Framework
Edited by AMIR WEINER
Stanford University Press I Stanford, California 2003
Stanford University Press Stanford, California
© 2003 by the Board ofTrustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. Published with the assistance of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Landscaping the human garden : twentieth-century population management in a comparative framework I edited by Arnir Weiner. p. em. "This volume grew out of a workshop held at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, on 28-29 March Il)97-" Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN o-H047-4622-2 (cloth: alk. paper)ISBN o-8047-4630-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) r. Political atrocities-Congresses. 2. Political persecutionCongresses. 3· State-sponsored terrorism-Congresses. 4· Genocide-Congresses. I. Weiner,Amir HV6322 .LJ6J 2003 20020I0784 303.6-dc2 I Original Printing 2003 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 12 II IO 09 08 07 06 05 04 OJ Designed by Eleanor Mennick Typeset by Heather Boone in ro.s/r2.5 Bembo
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