Name: Extremely Violent Societies
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Author: Gerlach, Christian
ISBN: 9780521706810

Type

Physical Book

Author

Christian Gerlach

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23x16.5x2.3 cm

Weight

0.79 kg.

ISBN

0521706815

ISBN13

9780521706810

Synopsis "Extremely Violent Societies "

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.

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