Worse than war
Subtitle: genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity
By: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 658
ISBN-13: 9781586487690
Subjects: Genocide -- Psychological aspects; Genocide -- Prevention; Racism -- Psychological aspects; Prejudices -- Psychological aspects; Hate -- Case studies; Group identity -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them and why they happen so frequently; and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-628) and index.
Table of contents: title: The choice; title: Clarifying the issues. Eliminationism, not genocide ; Worse than war : our age of suffering; title: Explaining eliminationist assaults. Why they begin ; How they are implemented ; Why the perpetrators act ; Why they end; title: Modern eliminationist politics. Sources and patterns ; Thinking and acting ; Actual minds, actual words; title: Changing the future. Prologue to the future ; What we can do.