Taking Lives (Fifth Edition)
Subtitle: Genocide and State Power
Edition: 5 Revised edition
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9780765800947
Subjects: Political oppression & persecution; Social Science; Sociology; History & Theory - General; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; Violence in Society; History / Holocaust; Sociology - General; Genocide; Mass murder; State-sponsored terrorism
Description: "Taking Lives is a pivotal effort to reconstruct the social and political contexts of twentieth-century, state-inspired mass murder. Irving Louis Horowitz re-examines genocide from a new perspective - viewing this issue as the defining element in the political sociology of our time. The fifth edition includes approximately 30 percent new materials with five new chapters."--BOOK JACKET.