Governments, citizens, and genocide [electronic resource] : a comparative and interdisciplinary approach / Alex Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarez, Alex.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Governments, Citizens, and GenocideA Comparative and Interdisciplinary ApproachAlex AlvarezA comprehensive analysis demonstrating how whole societies come to support the practice of genocide.""Alex Alvarez has produced an exceptionally comprehensive and useful analysis of modern genocide... [It] is perhaps the most important interdisciplinary account to appear since Zygmunt Bauman's classic work, Modernity and the Holocaust."" -- Stephen Feinstein, Director,

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Age of Genocide; 2 A Crime by Any Other Name; 3 Deadly Regimes; 4 Lethal Cogs; 5 Accommodating Genocide; 6 Confronting Genocide; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-215) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-06595-5

9786612065958

0-253-10848-9

OCLC:

56635144