Massacres : an historical perspective
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Massacres : an historical perspective
Scolar Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-192) and index
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Description
This book examines spontaneous and organised mass cruelty in this conduct of war, revolution and military occupation. It does this historically - covering the period from classical times to the twentieth century - and comparatively. It seeks to relate the criteria whereby humans make and have made moral judgements to particular sets of circumstances. This is done in a series of case studies, some familiar, many not. It is not preoccupied with the minutiae of specific atrocites but is concerned to achieve depth of analysis by examination of the theme in many social contexts.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Morality and moral systems
- Massacre as military norm: atrocities as a commonplace in tribal society
- Massacre by consent: mass murder as a sacrificial offering
- The Greek Experience I: Massacre as Military Postscript - butchery after the battle
- The Greek Experience II: Massacre as political expedient - the Mytilene and Melos controversies
- Roman Slavery I: Massacre as Social Retribution
- Roman Slavery II: Massacre as Condign Punishment - Slave rebellions, Spartacus
- Roman Games - Massacre as Spectator Sport
- Massacre as Succession Device: Achaemenid Persia
- Massacre and Counter Massacre - Turks, Greeks and Armenians
- Massacre as economic necessity - Stalinist Russia
- Massacre as Fratridice - the Spanish Civil War
- Massacre as Tactical Exigency - the Chindit Problem
- Massacre as Policy - Cruelty as Incidental to a Programme of Persecution: the SS
- Massacre by proxy - Vichy and the Jews
- Massacre as Strategic Extremity - Allied bombing in WWII
- Massacre and Liberation I: Colonialism in Kenya and Algeria
- Massacre and Liberation II: Colonial Aftermath in Nigeria, Congo and Vietham
- Conclusions - the psychology of cruelty and obsession.
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