TY - BOOK ID - 7225677 TI - The killing trap : genocide in the twentieth century AU - Midlarsky, Manus I. AU - Mazal Holocaust Collection. PY - 2005 SN - 9780521894692 0521894697 0521815452 9780521815451 9780511491023 051113259X 9780511132599 0511131232 9780511131233 0511491026 0511132050 9780511132056 128041524X 9781280415241 1107144736 0511182643 0511200331 0511300743 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - GENOCIDE KW - GENOCIDE--HISTORY KW - Genocide KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Ethnocide KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Crime KW - History KW - Genocide. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7225677 AB - The Killing Trap, first published in 2005, offers a comparative analysis of the genocides, politicides and ethnic cleansings of the twentieth century, which are estimated to have cost upwards of forty million lives. The book seeks to understand both the occurrence and magnitude of genocide, based on the conviction that such comparative analysis may contribute towards prevention of genocide in the future. Manus Midlarsky compares socio-economic circumstances and international contexts and includes in his analysis the Jews of Europe, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Tutsi in Rwanda, black Africans in Darfur, Cambodians, Bosnians, and the victims of conflict in Ireland. The occurrence of genocide is explained by means of a framework that gives equal emphasis to the non-occurrence of genocide, a critical element not found in other comparisons, and victims are given a prominence equal to that of perpetrators in understanding the magnitude of genocide. ER -