Author:
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Public Affairs, c2009.
Descriptionxii, 658 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Preface: The choice -- Introduction: Clarifying the issues -- 1. Eliminationism, not genocide -- 2. Worse than war: our age of suffering -- PART I: EXPLAINING ELIMINATIONIST ASSAULTS: 3. Why they begin -- 4. How they are implemented -- 5. Why the perpetrators act -- 6. Why they end -- PART II: MODERN ELIMINATIONIST POLITICS: -- 7. Sources and patterns -- 8. Thinking and acting -- 9. Actual minds, actual words -- PART III. CHANGING THE FUTURE: 10. Prologue to the future -- 11. What we can do.
Note:A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon od 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.
