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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| Körperschaften: | Yale University Press (Verlag) |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2015] © 2015 |
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| Internet: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Book review (H-Net) |
| Inhaltsangabe |
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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. |
