Sini¿a Male¿evi¿

The Rise of Organised Brutality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the prevailing orthodoxy that sees organised violence as in continuous decline, arguing instead that evidence shows that it continues to rise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781107095625
• ISBN-10: 110709562X
• Artikelnr.: 48330320

Autorenporträt

Sinia Maleevi¿ is a Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. His books include Nation-States and Nationalisms: Organisation, Ideology and Solidarity (2013), The Sociology of War and Violence (Cambridge, 2006), Identity as Ideology (2006), The Sociology of Ethnicity (2004) and the edited volumes Ernest Gellner and Historical Sociology (2015), Nationalism and War (Cambridge, 2013) and Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought (Cambridge, 2007). His work has been translated into Croatian, Persian, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Spanish.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the faces of violence
1. What is organised violence?
2. Violence in the long run
3. How old is human brutality?
4. The rise and rise of organised violence
5. Warfare
6. Revolutions
7. Genocides
8. Terrorisms
9. Why humans fight?
Conclusion: the future of organised violence
References
Index.