Why Not Kill Them All?: The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder

by Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley

Book Overview

Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political, cultural, or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten by historical sociologist Daniel Chirot and psychologist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691092966
• ISBN13: 9780691092966
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"