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008			100806s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780521880589 (hardback)
020			_a9780521706810 (pbk.)
040			_aDDC _cGU _dTOD _dTOD _bENG
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082	0	0	_a303.60904 GER
100	1		_aGerlach, Christian, _d1963-
245	1	0	_aExtremely violent societies : _bmass violence in the twentieth-century world / _cChristian Gerlach.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_axi, 489 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aViolence _xHistory _y20th century. _vViolence _zSocial aspects.
650		0	_aViolence _xSocial aspects.
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