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Becoming evil : how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword to the Second Edition / Gregory H. Stanton
- Foreword to the First Edition / Christopher R. Browning
- pt. 1. What are the origins of extraordinary human evil?
- Introduction : a place called Mauthausen
- 1. The nature of extraordinary human evil
- "Nits make lice"
- 2. Killers of conviction : groups, ideology, and extraordinary human evil
- "Dovey's story"
- 3. The "Mad Nazi" : psychopathology, personality, and extraordinary human evil
- The massacre at Babi Yar
- 4. The dead of demonization
- The invasion of Dili
- pt. 2. How do ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing?
- 5. Beyond demonization : a model of how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing
- The Tonle Sap massacre
- 6. Cultural construction of worldview : Who are the killers?
- Death of a Guatemalan village
- 7. Physical construction of the "other" : social death of the victims
- The church of Ntarama
- 8. Social construction of cruelty : the power of the situation
- The "safe area" of Srebrenica
- 9. Conclusion : Can we be delivered from extraordinary human evil?
- Postscript : past as present
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.