The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

by Michael Mann

Book Overview

A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethno-national movements each claims 'its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521538548
• ISBN13: 9780521538541
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.0"