000			02106nam a22003017a 4500
001			sulb-eb0017453
003			BD-SySUS
005			20160405140656.0
008			100519s2010||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d
020			_a9780511781254 (ebook)
020			_z9780521880589 (hardback)
020			_z9780521706810 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aHM886 _b.G46 2010
082	0	0	_a303.609/04 _222
100	1		_aGerlach, Christian, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aExtremely Violent Societies : _bMass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World / _cChristian Gerlach.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (502 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues 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 widespread bloodshed in countries such as Armenia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nazi-occupied Greece and in anti-guerilla wars worldwide 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, he offers us a new way of understanding one of the most disturbing phenomena of our times.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521880589
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511781254
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c38891 _d38891