| Description |
xvi, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Charles B. Strozier -- 1. Hiroshima and the Politics of History / Martin J. Sherwin -- 2. Hiroshima: The First Response / Paul Boyer -- 3. Hiroshima and the Silence of Poetry / Michael Flynn -- 4. Life after Death in Life / Greg Mitchell -- 5. On Pseudospeciation and Social Speciation / Kai Erikson -- 6. To Prevent or to Stop Mass Murder / Ronnie Dugger -- 7. Genocide and Warfare / Eric Markusen -- 8. Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers in the Face of Genocide and Its Aftermath / Eva Fogelman -- 9. In Pursuit of Sugihara: The Banality of Good / Hillel Levine -- 10. Genocide, Victimization, and America's Inner Cities / Charles Green -- 11. Meeting the Challenge of Genocide in Bosnia: Reconciling Moral Imperatives with Political Constraints / Richard Falk -- 12. The Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide / Saul Mendlovitz and John Fousek -- 13. Saving Bosnia (and Ourselves) / Elinor Fuchs -- 14. Manliness and the Great War / George L. Mosse |
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15. U.S. over Iraq: High Technology and Low Culture in the Gulf Conflict / John M. Broughton -- 16. Physicians and Nuclear War / Victor W. Sidel -- 17. Development and Violence / Ashis Nandy -- 18. Tolstoi's Revenge: The Violence of Indian Non-Violence / Wendy Doniger -- 19. Thoughts on a Theater of Witness and Excerpts from Two Plays of Witness: Better People, The Beekeeper's Daughter / Karen Malpede -- 20. Artists Witnessing "Ethnic Cleansing" / Stevan M. Weine -- 21. Religion and Violence / Harvey Cox -- 22. Back from the Abyss: Symbolic Immortality, Faith, and Human Survival / Roger Williamson -- 23. Can There be a Psychoanalysis Without a Political Analysis? / Bennett Simon -- 24. We Must Hear Each Other's Cry: Lessons from Pol Pot Survivors / Lane Gerber -- 25. History, Objectivity, Commitment / Howard Zinn -- 26. Exposing the Killing System: Robert Jay Lifton as Witness / John E. Mack |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Genocide -- Sociological aspects.
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Genocide -- QueenslandxSociological aspects
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Genocide.
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| Author |
Flynn, Michael, 1962-
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Strozier, Charles B.
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| LC no. |
96003736 |
| ISBN |
0847682269 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0847682277 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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