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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community

Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community

Bergholz, Max

Hardcover

CriminologyEastern European HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1501704923
ISBN13: 9781501704925
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Nov 29 2016
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.40 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Winner of the 2026 Dan David Prize

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?

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