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Civil wars : from L.A. to Bosnia Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks D 840 .E44 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Social conflict.
- World politics--20th century.
- World politics.
- Political sociology.
- History, Modern--20th century.
- Civil war.
- Physical Description:
- 144 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Civil wars : from Los Angeles to Bosnia
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, [1994]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- In Civil Wars, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most astute literary and political critic, chronicles the global changes taking place as the result of evolving notions of nationalism, loyalty, and community. Enzensberger sees similar forces at work around the world, from America's racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the outright carnage in the former Yugoslavia. He argues that previous approaches to class or generational conflict have failed us, and that we are now confronted with an "autism of violence": a tendency toward self-destruction and collective madness.--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Civil War
- Europe in ruins
- Great migration.
- Notes:
- Translated from German by: Piers Spence and Martin Chalmers.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 1565842081
- 9781565842083
- 156584209X
- 9781565842090
- OCLC:
- 31314029
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