{"product_id":"riots-and-pogroms-9780814712825","title":"Riots and Pogroms","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the Los Angeles riots of 1992, many Korean-American businesses were looted and burned to the ground. Although nearly half of the looters arrested were Latinos, the media portrayed this aspect of the riots more in terms of the on- going conflicts between Korean-Americans and African- Americans. In another part of the world in 1984, the violence which ensued after the assassination of India's Indira Gandhi was portrayed by officials and state leaders as a spilling over of mass sentiments of grief and anger, a conflict between ethnic groups instead of a pogrom against the Sikhs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRiots and Pogroms\u003c\/b\u003e presents comparative studies of public violence in the twentieth-century in the United States, Russia, Germany, Israel, and India with a comparative, historical, and analytical introduction by the editor. The focus of the book is on the interpretive process which follows riots and pogroms, rather than on the search for their causes. Its emphasis is on the struggle for control over the meaning of riotous events, for the right to represent them properly. How do political and social forces seek to assign causes and attach labels to riots, attribute motives to rioters and pogromists, and explain why particular groups are selected for violent assaults? To what extent are the state and its agents implicated in those assaults? To what degree does organization and\/or spontaneity play a role in these incidents?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul R. Brass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.36h x 5.34w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814712825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrass, Paul R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Paul R. Brass is Professor of Political Science and South Asian Studies at the University of Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40830473830515,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_60e19f35-b80b-48f9-9d18-5f42f93e3263.jpg?v=1684504081","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/riots-and-pogroms-9780814712825","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}