Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide, Jacques Semelin (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), xvi + 443 pp., cloth 30.50, pbk. 24.50

With varying acuity, some important instances of mass murder or genocide have been analyzed by scholars expert in the history and in the culture of the people involved. Mass violence has been so widespread in the modern world that other scholars, not necessarily expert in any one area, have been tem...

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Main Author: Melson, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2009
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 508-510
Review of:Purify and destroy (New York, N.Y. : Columbia Univ. Press, 2007) (Melson, Robert)
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