Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power

by Irving Louis Horowitz and Paul Hollander

Book Overview

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. The work is divided into five parts: "Present as History Past as Prologue," "Future...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808803
• ISBN13: 9780765808806
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A candid look at social and political climates

Now in a newly updated and revised fifth edition, Irving Horowitz's Taking Lives: Genocide And State Power is a brutally sober and candid look at the social and political climates that have fostered state-inspired mass-murder in the 20th century. Divided into five sections that focus on the present, past, future, general theory, and intense study of state-sponsored genocide, Taking Lives leaves no stone unturned in its thorough analysis. The new fifth edition concludes with chapters that review genocide studies from 1945 to the present. Taking Lives is a critical, scholarly reference not to be overlooked for political science and social reference shelves, as it shows new ways of viewing the human condition and how easily the state apparatus can be corrupted into a bludgeon of mass murder.