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Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity / genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: Eng Publication details: New York : PublicAffairs, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 658 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781586489007
  • 1586489003
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.15/1 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6322 .G65
Contents:
The choice -- Clarifying the issues. Eliminationism, not genocide ; Worse than war : our age of suffering -- Explaining eliminationist assaults. Why they begin ; How they are implemented ; Why the perpetrators act ; Why they end -- Modern eliminationist politics. Sources and patterns ; Thinking and acting ; Actual minds, actual words -- Changing the future. Prologue to the future ; What we can do.
Summary: A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them and why they happen so frequently; and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.
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Books African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights Library HV6322 .G65 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10028730

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-628) and index.

The choice -- Clarifying the issues. Eliminationism, not genocide ; Worse than war : our age of suffering -- Explaining eliminationist assaults. Why they begin ; How they are implemented ; Why the perpetrators act ; Why they end -- Modern eliminationist politics. Sources and patterns ; Thinking and acting ; Actual minds, actual words -- Changing the future. Prologue to the future ; What we can do.

A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them and why they happen so frequently; and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.

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