Purify And Destroy
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Author |
: Jacques Semelin |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 2007-08-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231512376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231512374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Purify and Destroy by : Jacques Semelin
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.
Author |
: Jacques Semelin |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 462 |
Release |
: 2009-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231142830 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231142838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Purify and Destroy by : Jacques Semelin
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.
Author |
: Jacques Semelin |
Publisher |
: C Hurst & Company Publishers Limited |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1849040591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781849040594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Resisting Genocide by : Jacques Semelin
Jacques Semelin is a historian and political scientist and senior researcher at CERI Sciences po-CNRS, Paris. --
Author |
: Omer Bartov |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195077230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195077237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mirrors of Destruction by : Omer Bartov
He then examines the pacifist reaction in interwar France to show how it contributed to a climate of collaboration with dictatorship and mass murder.
Author |
: Jacques Semelin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 471 |
Release |
: 2018-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190057992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190057998 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Survival of the Jews in France, 1940-44 by : Jacques Semelin
Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it-ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. The Nazis were determined to destroy the Jews across Europe, and the Vichy regime collaborated in their deportation from France. So what is the meaning of this French exception? Jacques Semelin sheds light on this 'French enigma', painting a radically unfamiliar view of occupied France. His is a rich, even-handed portrait of a complex and changing society, one where helping and informing on one's neighbours went hand in hand; and where small gestures of solidarity sat comfortably with anti-Semitism. Without shying away from the horror of the Holocaust's crimes, this seminal work adds a fresh perspective to our history of the Second World War.
Author |
: Beth A. Griech-Polelle |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2017-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472586940 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472586948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust by : Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust surveys the history of the Holocaust whilst demonstrating the pivotal importance of the historical tradition of anti-Semitism and the power of discriminatory language in relation to the Nazi-led persecution of the Jews. The book examines varieties of anti-Semitism that have existed throughout history, from religious anti-Semitism in the ancient Roman Empire to the racial anti-Semitism of political anti-Semites in Germany and Austria in the late 19th century. Beth A. Griech-Polelle analyzes the tropes, imagery, legends, myths and stereotypes about Jews that have surfaced at these various points in time. Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust considers how this language helped to engender an innate distrust, dislike and even hatred of the Jews in 20th-century Europe. She explores the shattering impact of the First World War and the rise of Weimar Germany, Hitler's rhetoric and the first phase of Nazi anti-Semitism before illustrating how ghettos, SS Einsatzgruppen killing squads, death camps and death marches were used to drive this anti-Semitic feeling towards genocide. With a wealth of primary source material, a thorough engagement with significant Holocaust scholarship and numerous illustrations, reading lists and a glossary to provide further support, this is a vital book for any student of the Holocaust keen to know more about the language of hate which fuelled it.
Author |
: Jean Hatzfeld |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2006-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429923514 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429923512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Machete Season by : Jean Hatzfeld
Navigate the darkest corridors of humanity with Machete Season–a harrowing saga that dusts off the grim truths of the Rwandan Genocide. Rewind to April-May 1994, as the Tutsis face the unimaginable horror of annihilation under their fellow Hutu's brutal reign. The author, Jean Hatzfeld, painstakingly pieces together the chilling accounts shared by nine Hutu executioners. Recounted are not just tales of horror, but a frightening display of the dehumanizing banality of evil. This revelation doubles as a probing exploration of the mechanisms of mass murders and their remorseless orchestrators. Delve into their candid confessions about the dreadful slaughter of approximately 50,000 Tutsis, their neighbors. As you navigate through their stories, one piercing, unsettling theme stands out: “Killing is easier than farming." Echoes of their unsettling ambivalence towards their heinous actions fill the pages, raising alarming questions about human morality and ethics. Machete Season isn’t just a chronicle of genocide. It's an insightful contemplation on the extraordinary horrors that ordinary human beings are capable of under certain circumstances. By starkly positioning the Rwandan Genocide alongside historical war crimes and genocidal episodes, this book raises a mirror to the darkest corners of human nature, forcing you to reconsider the pylons of morality, humanity, and guilt when survival is at stake.
Author |
: Lance Conrad |
Publisher |
: Dawn Star Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2013-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780991023028 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0991023021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Price of Creation by : Lance Conrad
The Historian chances upon Surac, a land where people's destinies are defined by powerful pendants they have from birth, called Stones. Those whose Stones give them useful skills call themselves Creators, and isolate themselves from all others with a wall that splits the entire continent. When Aric, a Creator blacksmith, has a son born with a Stone that marks him for violence and destruction, they find themselves in danger from those they called their friends. When the boy, Sadavir, is ultimately banished, he discovers secrets far darker than the villagers' petty prejudices. On the far side of the wall, he learns the origin of the Stones' magic and a war that dates back centuries. As he uncovers the true power locked in the Stones, he must find a way to unite ancient enemies in order to save his family. To stop a genocide, Sadavir must face his own destiny of violence.
Author |
: Mark Roseman |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2003-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0312422342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780312422349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution by : Mark Roseman
In early 1947, American officials in Germany stumbled across a document. Headed "Secret Reich matter," it summarized the results of a meeting of top Nazi officials that took place on January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin's Lake Wannsee.
Author |
: Manus I. Midlarsky |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 2005-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1139445391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139445399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Killing Trap by : Manus I. Midlarsky
The Killing Trap offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide.