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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State

The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide

Genocide in the Age of the Nation State( )
Author: Levene, Mark
ISBN:978-1-84511-057-4
Publication Date:Sep 2005
Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Imprint:I.B. Tauris
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $89.00
Book Description:

Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth-century phenomenon. In "The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide", Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. It was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations. One critical...
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Book Details
Pages:472
Detailed Subjects: Political Science / Genocide & War Crimes
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.596 x 23.393 x 2.54 cm
Book Weight:0.832 Kilograms



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