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Violence as a generative force : identity, nationalism, and memory in a Balkan community / Max Bergholz.
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Bergholz, Max
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English
Published/Created
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Description
xvii, 441 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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DR1785.K85 B47 2016
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Subject(s)
Massacres
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kulen Vakuf
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History
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Ethnic conflict
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kulen Vakuf
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History
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Violence
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kulen Vakuf
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History
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Nationalism and collective memory
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kulen Vakuf
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History
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Communalism
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kulen Vakuf
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History
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World War, 1939-1945
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Kulen Vakuf (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Ethnic relations
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Summary note
"During two terrifying days and nights in early September 1941, the lives of nearly two thousand men, women, and children were taken savagely by their neighbors in Kulen Vakuf, a small rural community straddling today's border between northwest Bosnia and Croatia. This frenzy--in which victims were butchered with farm tools, drowned in rivers, and thrown into deep vertical caves--was the culmination of a chain of local massacres that began earlier in the summer. In Violence as a Generative Force, Max Bergholz tells the story of the sudden and perplexing descent of this once peaceful multiethnic community into extreme violence. This deeply researched microhistory provides provocative insights to questions of global significance: What causes intercommunal violence? How does such violence between neighbors affect their identities and relations? Contrary to a widely held view that sees nationalism leading to violence, Bergholz reveals how the upheavals wrought by local killing actually created dramatically new perceptions of ethnicity--of oneself, supposed "brothers," and those perceived as "others." As a consequence, the violence forged new communities, new forms and configurations of power, and new practices of nationalism"-- Publisher's Web site.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-430) and index.
Contents
Vocabularies of community
A world upended
Killing and rescue
Rebellion and revenge
The challenge of restraint
Forty-eight hours
Sudden nationhood
Violence as generative force.
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ISBN
9781501704925 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1501704923
LCCN
2016025961
OCLC
951465455
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40026618992
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