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Why Not Kill Them All? : The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder /

"Cowritten by historical sociologist Daniel Chirot and psychologist Clark McCauley, the book goes beyond exploring the motives that have provided the psychological underpinnings for genocidal killings. It offers a historical and comparative context that adds up to a causal taxonomy of genocidal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chirot, Daniel
Other Authors: McCauley, Clark R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Cowritten by historical sociologist Daniel Chirot and psychologist Clark McCauley, the book goes beyond exploring the motives that have provided the psychological underpinnings for genocidal killings. It offers a historical and comparative context that adds up to a causal taxonomy of genocidal events. Rather than suggesting that such horrors are the product of abnormal or criminal minds, the authors emphasize the normality of these horrors: killing by category has occurred on every continent and in every century. But genocide is much less common than the imbalance of power that makes it possible. Throughout history human societies have developed techniques aimed at limiting intergroup violence. Incorporating ethnographic, historical, and current political evidence, this book examines the mechanisms of constraint that human societies have employed to temper partisan passions and reduce carnage."--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9781400834853