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Violence

Toby Miller

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2022
Materia
Violencia en la sociedad
ISBN:
9780367523152
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Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it.

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