Purify and destroy
Subtitle: the political uses of massacre and genocide
By: [Jacques Sémelin] ; translated from the French by Cynthia Schoch and Philippa Bush.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231142823; 9780231512374
Subjects: Genocide -- Political aspects.
Work titles: Purifier et détruire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The imaginary constructs of social destructiveness; title: From inflammatory discourse to sacrificial violence; title: International context, war and the media; title: The dynamics of mass murder; title: The vertigo of impunity; title: The political uses of massacres and genocides; title: The "never again" refrain.