RT Review
T1 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
JF Holocaust and genocide studies
VO 23
IS 3
SP 508
OP 510
A1 Melson, Robert
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/181447949X
AB 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 tempted to juxtapose two or more instances in order to discover underlying patterns and explanations. Scholars have come to understand that comparison does not necessarily imply equivalence; the divergences often prove more instructive., The founder and editor of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, Jacques Semelin, is professor of political science and research director at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationale (CERI) in Paris.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/hgs/dcp056