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Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war - that is to say, war between states in whic…
Chronicles the turbulent history of Cambodia from the era of French colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century to the death of Pol Pot in 1998.
"A major new interpretation of the role of terror in the French Revolution"--.
"Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering history traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s, arguing…
"There is real personal danger for anthropologists who dare to speak and write against terror; by doing so, they potentially and sometimes actually bring the terror down on themselves."--Jeffrey A. Sluka, from the IntroductionDeath Squad is the first work to focus specifically o…
"In the words of both the perpetrators of terrorism and their victims, God's Assassins explores what happens when a state turns on its citizens. Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta. Most were imprisoned and tortured before …
"In the words of both the perpetrators of terrorism and their victims, God's Assassins explores what happens when a state turns on its citizens. Between 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 Argentines "disappeared" under the military junta. Most were imprisoned and tortured before …
La 4e de couv. porte : "Horror films come in a wide variety of styles and subject matter. Three of the most intimate expositions of terror are examined in this study. Intimate in terms of settings (small towns and an isolated motel) and in the emotional links between the charact…
