War and genocide : organized killing in modern society / Martin Shaw

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003Description: xi, 257 pISBN:
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Subject(s): Summary: Examines the links between war and genocide showing that they are closely related, genocide being a form of war directed at civilians. As well as providing a reasoned argument about mass killings in modern war the book provides a guide to the intellectual resources, summarises the main instances of mass killing from the first world war trenches, to the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and offers a guide to further reading.
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Examines the links between war and genocide showing that they are closely related, genocide being a form of war directed at civilians. As well as providing a reasoned argument about mass killings in modern war the book provides a guide to the intellectual resources, summarises the main instances of mass killing from the first world war trenches, to the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and offers a guide to further reading.

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