Extremely violent societies mass violence in the twentieth-century
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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ix, 489 pages 23 cm.; pbk.
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Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"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 explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities from killings and expulsions to enforced hunger, collective rape, strategic bombing, forced labour and imprisonment. He explores what happened before, during, and after periods of wide-spread bloodshed in Armenia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Greece and anti-guerilla wars in order to highlight the crucial role of socio-economic pressures in the generation of group conflicts. By focussing on why so many different people participated in or supported mass violence, and why different groups were victimized, the author offers us a new way of understanding one of the most disturbing phenomena of our times"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gerlach, C. 1. (2010). Extremely violent societies: mass violence in the twentieth-century . Cambridge University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gerlach, Christian 1963-. 2010. Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-century. Cambridge University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gerlach, Christian 1963-. Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-century Cambridge University Press, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gerlach, Christian 1963-. Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-century Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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