Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 273 pages)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0801474922
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0801467152
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0801444489
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9780801474927
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9780801467158
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9780801444487
Content:
"Challenging the prevailing wisdom, Straus provides substantial new evidence about local patterns of violence, using original research - including the most comprehensive surveys yet undertaken among convicted perpetrators - to assess competing theories about the causes and dynamics of the genocide. Current interpretations stress three main causes for the genocide: ethnic identity, ideology, and mass-media indoctrination (in particular the influence of hate radio). Straus's research does not deny the importance of ethnicity, but he finds that it operated more as a background condition. Instead, Straus emphasizes fear and intra-ethnic intimidation as the primary drivers of the violence. A defensive civil war and the assassination of a president created a feeling of acute insecurity. Rwanda's unusually effective state was also central, as was the country's geography and population density, which limited the number of exit options for both victims and perpetrators. In conclusion, Straus steps back from the particulars of the Rwandan genocide to offer a new, dynamic model for understanding other instances of genocide in recent history -- the Holocaust, Armenia, Cambodia, the Balkans -- and assessing the future likelihood of such events."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Background to the genocide -- 2. Genocide at the national and regional levels -- 3. Local dynamics -- 4. The génocidaires -- 5. Why perpetrators say they committed genocide -- 6. The logic of genocide -- 7. Historical patterns of violence -- 8. Rwanda's Leviathan -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index.
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0801444489
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801444487
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Straus, Scott, 1970- Order of genocide Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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