Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
by James Waller
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0195189493
- ISBN 13
- 9780195189490
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Synopsis
Preface: "I Couldn't Do This to Someone"Part 1: What Are the Origins of Extraordinary Human Evil? Introduction: A Place Called Mauthausen1. The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evil"Nits Make Lice"2. Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary EvilDovey's Story3. The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary EvilThe Massacre at Babi Yar4. The Dead End of DemonizationThe Invasion of DiliPart 2: Beyond Demonization: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordinary Evil A Model of Extraordinary Human Evil5. The Nature of Human Nature: Our Ancestral ShadowThe Tonle Sap Massacre6. Defining the Killers: Identities of the PerpetratorsDeath of a Guatemalan Village7. Immediate Social context: A Culture of CrueltyThe Church at Ntamara8. Defining the "Other": Social Death of the VictimsThe Safe Area of SrebrenicaPart 3: What Have We Learned and Why Does It Matter? 9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Evil?Genocide Warning: Sudan
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- Bookseller
- Beacon Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009265
- Title
- Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing
- Author
- James Waller
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0195189493
- ISBN 13
- 9780195189490
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cary, North Carolina, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- August 2005
- Pages
- 336
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