The Deadly Ethnic Riot

by Donald L. Horowitz

Book Overview

Donald L. Horowitz's comprehensive consideration of the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence is the first full-scale, comparative study of what the author terms the deadly ethnic riot-an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group. Serious, frequent, and destabilizing, these events result in large numbers of casualties. Horowitz examines approximately 150 such riots in about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236424
• ISBN13: 9780520236424
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 605 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"