The killing compartments : the mentality of mass murder / Abram De Swaan

The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxonomy of mass violence that focuses on the rank-and-f...

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Hauptverfasser:Swaan, Abram de (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
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IntroductionOrdinary perpetrators and modernity : the situationist consensus
Widening circles of identification and disidentification
The transformations of violence in human history
Rwanda : self-destructive destruction
Genocidal regimes and the compartmentalization of society
The four modes of mass annihilation : case histories
Genocidal perpetrators and the compartmentalization of personality
Conclusion..