TY - BOOK ID - 8839428 TI - Extremely violent societies : mass violence in the twentieth-century world. PY - 2010 SN - 9780521706810 9780521880589 9780511781254 9780511909863 0511909861 9780511907067 0511907060 9780511908361 0511908369 0511781253 0511905785 9780511905780 0521880580 0521706815 051185109X 1107218977 1282818562 9786612818561 051190911X PB - Cambridge Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - Violence KW - History KW - Social aspects. KW - Violent behavior KW - Social psychology KW - Social aspects KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8839428 AB - "Violence is a fact of human life. This book trace the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. Christian Gerlach shows that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and interests that cause violence to spread in varying forms and intensities from killings and expulsions to enforced hunger, collective rape, strategic bombing, forced labour and imprisonment. He explores what happened before, during, and after periods of wide-spread bloodshed in Armenia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Greece and anti-guerilla wars in order to highlight the crucial role of socio-economic pressures in the generation of group conflicts. By focussing on why so many different people participated in or supported mass violence, and why different groups were victimized, the author offers us a new way of understanding one of the most disturbing phenomena of our times"-- ER -