The Massacre in History.(Review) (book review) (book review)

The Massacre in History

Edited by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts Berghahn Books xvi + 296pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (hb) and 16.50 [pounds sterling] (pb) ISBN 1 57181 9355 and 1 57181 9437

THESE SOMEWHAT GRIM but thoroughly cogent collections direct our attention to issues that are too often ignored or treated as some terrible irruption of primitive drives that are not worthy of historical study. Instead, both volumes indicate the centrality of violence and also the way it can be used to probe issues and tensions within and between societies.

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