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Barbaric civilization : a critical sociology of genocide / Christopher Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Christopher John, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide.
- Civilization, Western.
- Critical theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A provocative analysis of how genocides result from the expansion of Western civilization.
- Contents:
- A critical sociology of genocide
- Identifying genocide
- Closing the theory gap in the sociology of genocide
- Civilizing genocides and barbaric civilization
- Genocides of ideological others in Languedoc and Guatemala
- Genocides of colonized others in Tasmania and India
- Genocides of national others in the Ottoman empire and Rwanda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-8556-7
- OCLC:
- 806255370
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