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

"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...

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Main Author: Gerlach, Christian, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
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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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: extremely violent societies -- Participatory violence. A coalition for violence: mass slaughter in Indonesia, 1965-66 -- Participating and profiteering: the destruction of the Armenians, 1915-23 -- The crisis of society. From rivalries between elites to a crisis of society: mass violence and famine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1971-77 -- Sustainable violence: strategic resettlement, militias and 'development' in anti-guerrilla warfare -- What connects the fate of different victim groups? The German occupation and Greek society in crisis -- General observations. The ethnization of history: the historiography of mass violence and national identity construction -- Conclusions. 
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