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Violence : A Reader

Part of the Main Trends of the Modern World S. series
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The essays in this volume address the inter-relationship of power, politics, and violence, examining why the political process of managing power within states sometimes becomes physically violent.

It brings together writings on the relationship between states and violence with work on political violence in local settings.

The essays address state-backed violence against citizens and subjects, and violence by citizens against the state and between citizens for control of the state.

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Palgrave Macmillan
0333947754 / 9780333947753
Hardback
303.6
17/06/2002
United Kingdom
English
256p. : ill.
22 cm
postgraduate /research & professional /undergraduate Learn More
Catherine Besteman is the author of "Unravelling Somalia - Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery" and "The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War" (edited with Lee C. Cassanelli).
Catherine Besteman is the author of "Unravelling Somalia - Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery" and "The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War" (edited with Lee C. Cassanelli). JFFE Violence in society, JHBA Social theory, JPV Political control & freedoms