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Killing Strangers - How Political Violence Became Modern (Hardcover, 1)
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Killing Strangers - How Political Violence Became Modern (Hardcover, 1)
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A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is
its stunning impersonality. Every major city centre becomes a
potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb
alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to 'be in the wrong
place at the wrong time'. We accept this contemporary reality - at
least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from
historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It
examines how such violence became 'unchained' from inter-personal
relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by
examining violence in conjunction with changing social and
political realities. In particular, it traces both 'push' and
'pull' - the ability of modern states to force the violence of
their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new
opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in
fresh and original ways. Killing Strangers therefore aims to
highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it
is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly
capture media attention - and just as quickly fade from public
view. That is both tragic - and utterly predictable. Deep down we
expect no different. And that is why such atrocities must be
repeated if our attention is to be re-engaged. Deep down we expect
that, too. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest
of questions. How on earth did we get here?
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