Gerlach, Christian (2010). Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)In 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.
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Book (Monograph) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Modern and Contemporary History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Modern and Contemporary History > Zeitgeschichte |
UniBE Contributor: |
Gerlach, Christian |
Subjects: |
900 History |
ISBN: |
9780521706810 |
Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press |
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English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 14:18 |
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05 Dec 2022 14:05 |
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Übersetzung ins Spanische 2015: Sociedades extremamente violentas: La violencia en masa en el mundo de siglo xx (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015). |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/5648 (FactScience: 210433) |
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