An abbreviated version of the definitive work on the destruction of Hungarian Jewry.
The Politics of Annihilation traces how the concept of genocide came to acquire such significance on the global political stage. In doing so, it reveals how the concept has been politically contested and refashioned over time.
Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every historical epoch seem so willing to kill each other.
This book analyzes incidences of genocide and mass atrocities, focusing on the political factors involved in modern counter-genocide efforts.
This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manifestations, and its occurrences.
This represents the first volume to offer a dedicated, comparative theory of ideology's role in mass killing, while also developing a powerful new account of how ideology affects violence and politics more generally.
Describes the political situations which have resulted in genocide, shows how technological developments have made massacres more feasible, and discusses the influence of larger nations in fomenting conflict
Brody and Ratner, Reed Brody and Michael Ratner (eds) The Pinochet Papers: The Case of Augusto Pinochet in Spain and Britain (Kluwer London 2000) Bruce Broomhall InternationalJustice and theInternational Criminal Court (Oxford Univ ...
Based on the seminal distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, both rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms "delusional rationality.
What was the political and social context? How can we understand it? These and other questions are addressed in a compelling historical narrative.This definitive book will be of interest to Soviet experts, those inte