Governments, Citizens, and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach

by Alex Alvarez

Book Overview

Governments, Citizens, and Genocide
A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach

Alex Alvarez

A comprehensive analysis demonstrating how whole societies come to support the practice of genocide.

"Alex Alvarez has produced an exceptionally comprehensive and useful analysis of modern genocide . . . It] is perhaps the most important interdisciplinary account to appear since Zygmunt Bauman's classic work, Modernity and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253338492
• ISBN13: 9780253338495
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

It's About Time

Dr. Alvarez's synthesis of the literature on genocide from a sociological and criminological perspective is unprecendented. This is not only a work that will inform the academic literature, but one that should also be used to inform public policy. It is in this sense that Dr. Alvarez has not only succeeded as a scholar, but as a humanitarian as well.