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Killing compartments : the mentality of mass murder / Abram de Swaan.
LIBRA HV6431 .S93 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swaan, Abram de, 1942- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- State-sponsored terrorism--Psychological aspects.
- Mass murder.
- Mass murder--Psychological aspects.
- Mass murderers--Psychology.
- Mass murderers.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 332 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, c2015.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Ordinary Perpetrators and Modernity: The Situationist Consensus
- Chapter 3. Widening Circles of Identification and Disidentification
- Chapter 4. The Transformations of Violence in Human History
- Chapter 5. Rwanda: Self-Destructive Destruction
- Chapter 6. Genocidal Regimes and the Compartmentalization of Society
- Chapter 7. The Four Modes of Mass Annihilation: Case Histories
- Chapter 8. Genocidal Perpetrators and the Compartmentalization of Personality
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300208723
- 9780300208726
- OCLC:
- 877370144
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