New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Palgrave Macmillan
2002 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Palgrave Macmillan
OCT-DEC 2002
Bruce B. Campbell
Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability
Pbk published November 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan at £17.00
ISBN: 1403960941
Whether in the form of quasi-state or rogue groups, armed factions engaged in violence have played important roles in atrocities across time and place.
This collection examines the actions, roles and influence of death squads in such countries as Weimar Germany, El Salvador, South Africa and the Balkans. With ethnic conflict and the implosion of states an on-going cause of instability, this book provides insights and should appeal to such classes as comparative genocide, ethnic conflict and generally violence. Death squads have become an increasingly common feature of the modern world. In nearly all instances, their establishment is tolerated, encouraged or undertaken by the state itself, which thereby risks its monopoly on the use of force, one of the fundamental characteristics of modern states. Why do such a variety of regimes, under very different circumstances, condone such activity? This text hopes to answer that question and explain not only their development, but also why they can be expected to proliferate in the early 21st century.
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Fran Mason
American Gangster Cinema
Published December 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan at £47.50
ISBN: 0333674529
Much analysis of gangster movies has been based upon a study of the gangster as a malign figuration of the American Dream, originally set in the era of the Depression. This text extends previous analysis of the genre by examining the evolution of gangster movies from the 1930s to the contemporary period and by placing them in the context of cultural and cinematic issues such as masculinity, consumerism and technology. With a close examination of many films from "Scarface" and "Public Enemy" to "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction", this book provides an insight into a topical and popular subject.
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