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

Author/creator Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Descriptionxii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 599-628) and index.
LCCN 2009028035
ISBN9781586487690 (alk. paper)
ISBN1586487698 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV6322.7 .G65 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold