Violence and the civilising process in Cambodia /

Violence and the civilising process in Cambodia /

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Author / Creator:	Broadhurst, Roderic G., author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:	xviii, 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Violence -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century. Social aspects. Violence. Cambodia -- History -- 20th century. Cambodia -- Social aspects -- 20th century. Cambodia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10534297

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Varying Form of Title:	Violence and the civilizing process in Cambodia
Other authors / contributors:	Bouhours, Thierry, author. Bouhours, Brigitte, author.
ISBN:	9781107109117 1107109116
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and index.
Summary:	"in this insightful new study tracing the history of violence in Cambodia, the authors evaluate the extent to which Elias's theories can be applied in a non-western context. Drawing from historical and contemporary archival sources, constabulary statistics, victim surveys and newspaper reports, Broadhurst, Bouhours and Bouhours chart trends and forms of violence throughout Cambodia from the mid nineteenth century through the present day. Analyzing periods of colonization, anti-colonial wars, interdependence, civil war, the revolutionary terror of the 1970s and post-conflict development, the authors assess whether violence has decreased and whether such a decline can be attributed to Elias's civilizing process, identifying a series of universal factors that have historically reduced violence." --

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Summary:	In 1939, the German sociologist Norbert Elias published his groundbreaking work The Civilizing Process, which has come to be regarded as one of the most influential works of sociology today. In this insightful new study tracing the history of violence in Cambodia, the authors evaluate the extent to which Elias's theories can be applied in a non-Western context. Drawing from historical and contemporary archival sources, constabulary statistics, victim surveys and newspaper reports, Broadhurst, Bouhours and Bouhours chart trends and forms of violence throughout Cambodia from the mid-nineteenth century through to the present day. Analysing periods of colonisation, anti-colonial wars, interdependence, civil war, the revolutionary terror of the 1970s and post-conflict development, the authors assess whether violence has decreased and whether such a decline can be attributed to Elias's civilising process, identifying a series of universal factors that have historically reduced violence.
Physical Description:	xviii, 362 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and index.
ISBN:	9781107109117 1107109116