Landscaping the human garden
Subtitle: twentieth-century population management in a comparative framework
By: edited by Amir Weiner.
Contributors: Weiner, Amir, 1961-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Political atrocities -- Congresses.; Political persecution -- Congresses.; State-sponsored terrorism -- Congresses.; Genocide -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "This volume grew out of a workshop held at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, on March 28-29, 1997"--P. [xiii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: landscaping the human garden / Amir Weiner; title: State violence as technique : the logic of violence in Soviet totalitarianism / Peter Holquist; title: The transformation of state and society in World War I Germany / Elisabeth Domansky; title: Corporatism or democracy : the Russian Provisional Government of 1917 / Daniel Orlovsky; title: The dead and the unborn : French pronatalism and the abortion law of 1920 / Mary Louise Roberts; title: "More masculine men, more feminine women" : the iconography of Nazi racial hatreds / Claudia Koonz; title: Defining enemies, making victims : Germans, Jews, and the Holocaust / Omer Bartov; title: When memory counts : war, genocide, and postwar Soviet Jewry / Amir Weiner; title: Social Darwinism versus social engineering : the education of Japanese Americans during World War II / Gordon H. Chang; title: How to construct a productive, disciplined, monoethnic Society : the dilemma of east central European governments, 1914-1956 / István Deák; title: Ethnic cleansing between war and peace / Norman M. Naimark; title: Female images in a state of war : the Israeli war widow in fiction and film / Yael Zerubavel.