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Extremely violent societies : mass violence in the twentieth-century world /

"Violence is a fact of human life. This book trace the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. Christian Gerlach shows that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gerlach, Christian, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: extremely violent societies
  • Participatory violence. A coalition for violence: mass slaughter in Indonesia, 1965-66
  • Participating and profiteering: the destruction of the Armenians, 1915-23
  • The crisis of society. From rivalries between elites to a crisis of society: mass violence and famine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1971-77
  • Sustainable violence: strategic resettlement, militias and 'development' in anti-guerrilla warfare
  • What connects the fate of different victim groups? The German occupation and Greek society in crisis
  • General observations. The ethnization of history: the historiography of mass violence and national identity construction
  • Conclusions.