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Extremely violent societies : mass violence in the twentieth-century world / Christian Gerlach

Gerlach, Christian, 1963-

1. publ.

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010

XI, 489 S.

Englisch

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

eb 20240324 ; 3 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

0-521-88058-0 (hbk.); 978-0-521-70681-0 ((pbk.)); 978-0-521-88058-9 ( : hbk.)

2010033714

9780521706810

OCoLC: 699877142     

OCoLC: 699877142 (aus SWB)     

LB 51000  | NQ 1020  | MD 8920  | MS 4450      Ähnliche Literatur

HM886

303.609/04 ; 306.09

Basisklassifikation: 71.64 (Abweichendes Verhalten) ; 71.65 (Kriminalität als soziales Problem) ; 15.37 (Europäische Geschichte 1914-1945) ; 15.38 (Europäische Geschichte nach 1945)

*Kollektive Gewalt ; Geschichte 1900-2000     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Violence -- History -- 20th century ; Violence -- Social aspects

Kollektive Gewalt ; Geschichte 1900-2000

"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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