| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The nature and nurture of ethnic violence -- Modernity and ethnic violence -- Teaching peace or violence? -- The origins of ethnic consciousness -- The origins of ethnic pluralism -- Emotional prejudice and ethnic obligations : motives of ethnic violence -- States and ethnic violence : containing violence or instigating unrest? -- From worst to first : declining ethnic violence in early modernizers -- Modernity and ethnic violence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America -- The future of ethnic violence. |
| Summary |
This work explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, the text provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past 200 years. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnic conflict.
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Ethnic conflict. |
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Ethnic conflict -- History.
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lange, Matthew. Killing others. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501704871 (DLC) 2016030015 (OCoLC)952964493 |
| ISBN |
9781501707773 (electronic book) |
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1501707779 (electronic book) |
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9781501707766 (electronic book) |
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1501707760 (electronic book) |
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9781501704871 (hardcover) |
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