Cultural Genocide

Informationen zum Autor LAWRENCE DAVIDSON is a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of "America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood!" "Foreign Policy! Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest" and coauthor of "A Concise History of the Middle East." Klappentext Provides a theoretical basis for understanding why groups can be readily brought to seek the elimination of out-groups using the tactic of cultural destruction. Davidson applies his theory to four uses of cultural genocide, with two pre-Holocaust case studies and two post-Holocaust case studies. He examines the mechanisms that may be used to combat today's cultural genocide as well as the contemporary social and political forces at work that must be overcome in the process.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Davidson
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9780813552439
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5243-9
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)