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Author Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.

Title Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity / Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.151 G56    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  364.151 G618W    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.151 GO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-628) and index.
Contents The choice -- Clarifying the issues. Eliminationism, not genocide ; Worse than war : our age of suffering -- Explaining eliminationist assaults. Why they begin ; How they are implemented ; Why the perpetrators act ; Why they end -- Modern eliminationist politics. Sources and patterns ; Thinking and acting ; Actual minds, actual words -- Changing the future. Prologue to the future ; What we can do.
Summary 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.
Subject Genocide -- Psychological aspects.
Genocide -- Prevention.
Racism -- Psychological aspects.
Prejudices -- Psychological aspects.
Hate -- Case studies.
Group identity -- Case studies.
ISBN 9781586487690 alkaline paper $29.95
1586487698 alkaline paper
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