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The dark side of democracy : explaining ethnic cleansing / Michael Mann

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Author:
Mann, Michael 1942-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 580 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2005
Contents:
The argument -- Ethnic cleansing in former times -- Two versions of "We, the People" -- Genocidal democracies in the new world -- Armenia, I: into the danger zone -- Armenia, II: genocide -- Nazis, I: radicalization -- Nazis, II: fifteen hundred perpetrators -- Nazis III: genocidal careers -- Germany's allies and auxiliaries -- Communist cleansing: Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot -- Yugoslavia, I: into the danger zone -- Yugoslavia, II: Murderous cleansing -- Rwanda, I: into the danger zone -- Rwanda, II: genocide -- Counterfactual cases: India and Indonesia -- Combating ethnic cleansing in the world today
Summary:
This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder, Michael Mann offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future. Michael Mann is the author of Fascists (Cambridge, 2004) and The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge 1986). The Dark Side of Democracy is the most comprehensive study of ethnic cleansing.
Topic:
Political atrocities  Search this
Genocide  Search this
State-sponsored terrorism  Search this
Ethnicity--Political aspects  Search this
Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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