Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas

by Daniel Feierstein

Book Overview

Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds similarities, not in the extent of the horror...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813563178
• ISBN13: 9780813563176
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary