Purify and destroy
Subtitle: the political uses of massacre and genocide
By: Jacques Sémelin ; translated from the French by Cynthia Schoch.
Publisher: Hurst and Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Genocide -- Political aspects.
Work titles: Purifier et détruire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translation of: Purifier et détruire.
Table of contents: value: The imaginary constructs of social destructiveness; value: From inflammatory discourse to sacrificial violence; value: International context, war and the media; value: The dynamics of mass murder; value: The vertigo of impunity; value: The political uses of massacres and genocides; value: The "never again" refrain.