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Humanity : a moral history of the twentieth century / Jonathan Glover.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glover, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern--20th century--Moral and ethical aspects.
- History, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (476 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale Nota Bene, 2001.
- Summary:
- This important book confronts the brutal history of the 20th century to unravel the psychological mystery of why so many atrocities occurred--the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Gulag, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and others--and how we can prevent their reoccurrence.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Ethics without the moral law
- pt. 2. The moral psychological of waging war
- pt. 3. Tribalism
- pt. 4. War as a trap
- pt. 5. Belief and terror : Stalin and his years
- pt. 6. The will to create mankind anew : the Nazi experiment
- pt. 7. On the recent moral history of humanity.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : J. Cape. 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-447) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-73119-6
- 9786611731199
- 0-300-13298-0
- OCLC:
- 923592415
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