Beyond the Pale of Pity: Key Episodes of Elite Violence in Brazil to 1930
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Beyond the Pale of Pity: Key Episodes of Elite Violence in Brazil to 1930
By (Author) R. S. Rose
Austin & Winfield,U.S.
Austin & Winfield,U.S.
1st May 1998
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Anthropology
Second World War
Modern warfare
Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements
Political oppression and persecution
Police and security services
Social and cultural history
306.30981
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 134mm, Height 206mm, Spine 22mm
358g
Description
This important new study is an inquiry into the origins and purposes of downwardly directed violence by economic and political elites in Brazilviolence that has led to the invention and tacit approval of contemporary death squads.
Reviews
The historical and sociological research of Dr. Rose, so evident in his writing, has never ceased to arouse my highest admiration. * John W.F. Dulles *
The historical and sociological research of Dr. Rose, so evident in his writing, has never ceased to arouse my highest admiration. * John W.F. Dulles *
