Extremely violent societies mass violence in the twentieth-century world - Gerlach, Christian 1963- (Cambridge Univiversity Press, 2010)
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: extremely violent societies; Part I. Participatory Violence: 2. A coalition for violence: mass slaughter in Indonesia, 1965-66; 3. Participating and profiteering: the destruction of the Armenians, 1915-23; Part II. The Crisis of Society: 4. From rivalries between elites to a crisis of society: mass violence and famine in Bangladesh (East Pakistan), 1971-77; 5. Sustainable violence: strategic resettlement, militias and 'development' in anti-guerrilla warfare; 6. What connects the fate of different victim groups? The German occupation and Greek society in crisis; Part III. General Observations: 7. The ethnization of history: the historiography of mass violence and national identity construction; 8. Conclusions
Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000; Violence / History / 20th century; Violence / Social aspects; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; Kollektive Gewalt