Extremely Violent Societies Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World

Name: Extremely Violent Societies Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World
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ISBN: 9780521706810

ISBN-10: 0521706815

ISBN-13: 9780521706810

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christian Gerlach

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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 502
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.78" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Christian Gerlach is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bern. His award-winning titles in German include Calculated Murder: The German Economic and Extermination Policy in Byelorussia (third edition, 2001), War, Food, Genocide: German Extermination Policies in the Second World War (second edition, 2001), and The Last Chapter: The Murder of Hungarian Jews, 1944-45 (with Gï¿½tz Aly, second edition, 2004).



Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations



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


Notes


Index