Taking Lives
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Open LibraryAbout this book
"Taking Lives is a pivotal effort to reconstruct the social and political contexts of twentieth-century, state-inspired mass murder. Irving Louis Horowitz re-examines genocide from a new perspective - viewing this issue as the defining element in the political sociology of our time. The fifth edition includes approximately 30 percent new materials with five new chapters."--BOOK JACKET.
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GenocideMass murderState-sponsored terrorismGénocideMass shootingsMeurtre multiple
First published 1979About the author
Irving Louis Horowitz
1929 – 2012
Irving Louis Horowitz (September 25, 1929 – March 21, 2012) was an American sociologist, author, and academic. He proposed a quantitative index for measuring a country's quality of life, and helped to popularize "Third World" as a term for the poorer nations of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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