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9780231800532 | Ebrary, September 1, 2010, cover price $23.99
Product Description: Every genocide in history has been notable for the minority of brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to rescue its would be victims. Based on three case studies--the genocides of the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandese Tutsi--this book is the first international comparative and multidisciplinary attempt to make rescue an object of research, while breaking free of the notion of "The Righteous Among the Nations...read more
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9781849040594 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $84.95 | also contains Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue
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9780199333493 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 16, 2014, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Every genocide in history has been notable for the minority of brave individuals and groups who put their own lives at risk to rescue its would be victims.
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9780231701723 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 30, 2010, cover price $55.00
9780199327126 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 22, 2010, cover price $50.00
9781849040594 | Gardners Books, April 1, 2010, cover price $84.95 | also contains Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue
How can we comprehend the sociopolitical processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing, or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina while respecting the specificities of each appalling phenomenon. Jacques Semelin achieves this, in part, by leading his readers through the three examples simultaneously, the unraveling of which sometimes converges but most often diverges.Semelin's method is multidisciplinary, relying not only on contemporary history but also on social psychology and political science. Based on the seminal distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, both rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms "delusional rationality." He describes a dynamic structural model with, at its core, the matrix of a social imaginaire that, responding to fears, resentments, and utopias, carves and recarves the social body by eliminating "the enemy." Semelin identifies the main stages that can lead to a genocidal process and explains how ordinary people can become perpetrators. He develops an intellectual framework to analyze the entire spectrum of mass violence, including terrorism, in the twentieth century and before. Strongly critical of today's political instrumentalization of the "genocide" notion, Semelin urges genocide research to stand back from legal and normative definitions and come of age as a discipline in its own right in the social sciences.
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9780231142823 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: How can we comprehend the sociopolitical processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing, or genocide?
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9780231142830 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2009, cover price $29.00
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9781569245149 | Da Capo Pr, September 25, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A nonviolence scholar offers explanations and advice to his two teenage daughters on dealing conflict and injustice in a nonviolent manner.
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9781569245156 | Da Capo Pr, September 25, 2002, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A nonviolence scholar offers explanations and advice to his two teenage daughters on dealing conflict and injustice in a nonviolent manner.
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9780275939601 | Praeger Pub Text, May 1, 1993, cover price $70.00
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9780275939618 | Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 1993, cover price $33.95
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