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Extremely Violent Societies - Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (Hardcover)
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Extremely Violent Societies - Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World (Hardcover)
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In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social
roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved
in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues 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 widespread bloodshed in countries such
as Armenia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nazi-occupied Greece and in
anti-guerilla wars worldwide 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,
he offers us a new way of understanding one of the most disturbing
phenomena of our times.
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