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by Edward Weisband


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  • Title The Macabresque: Human Violation and Hate in Genocide, Mass Atrocity and Enemy-Making
  • Author Edward Weisband
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2017-11-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780190677886 / 0190677880
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.6 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 4.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Massacres, Political atrocities
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017010034
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.663

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Edward Weisband is the Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech. He is the author of ten books, including Turkish Foreign Policy, 1943-1945, Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation States, Nations and Nationalities, Global Accountabilities, Secrecy and Foreign Policy, and World Politics.
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Hardback. New. Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed. But the question remains, if the main goal is death, then why is torture necessary? This book argues that genocide and mass atrocity are committed not as an end in themselves but as a means to pursue sustained and systemic torture - the spectacle of violence - against its victims. Extermination is not the only, or even the primary, goal of genocidal campaigns. In The Macabresque, Edward Weisband looks at different episodes of mass violence (Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Holocaust, post-Ottoman Turkey, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia, among other instances) to consider why different methods of violence were used in each and how they related to the particular cultural milieu in which they were perpetrated. He asserts that it is not accidental that certain images capture our memory as emblematic of specific genocides or mass atrocities (the… Read More
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