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After a century that has been described as the most violent in the history of humanity, Professor Richard Bessel has written an intelligent and fascinat-ing book on the history of our violent world and how we have become ob-sessed about violence. He critiques the great themes of modern history from revolutionary upheavals around the globe, to the two world wars and the murder of the European Jews, to the great purges and, more recently, terrorism.
Violence, it seems, is on everyone's mind. It constantly is in the news; it has given rise to an enormous historical, sociological, and philosophical litera-ture; it occupies a prominent place in popular entertainment; and it is re-garded as one of the fundamental problems affecting social, political and interpersonal relations.
Bessel sheds light on this phenomenon and how our sensitivity towards violence has grown and has affected the ways in which we understand the world around us - in terms of religious faith, politics, military confronta-tion, the role of the state, as well as of interpersonal and intimate relations. He critiques our modern day relationship with violence and how despite its continuing and inevitable nature, we have become more committed to lim-iting and suppressing it.
Both historically questioning and intensely evocative of the most vicious and brutal violence enacted by mankind, this book shows how the place of violence in the modern world presents a number of paradoxes and how it is an inescapable theme in human history.

About the Author

Richard Bessel is Professor of Twentieth Century History at the Univer-sity of York. He works on the social and political history of modern Germany, the aftermath of the two world wars and the history of polic-ing. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of German History and History Today. His books include Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism, Germany after the First World War and Nazism and War.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780743239578
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Depth: 37
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 240 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0743239571
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 165 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Weight: 566 gr

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