Description: Donald Horowitz defines a deadly ethnic riot as "an intense, though not necessarily unplanned, lethal attack by members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group." The book draws examples from all over the world and rigorously analyzes this brutal phenomenon.
Review Quotes: "Horowitz's book is comprehensive, illuminating, unprecedented in scope and absolutely fascinating. It may be just the thing for realists--yes, you know them as pessimists--who are looking for some chilly truths about the sphinx that has haunted the century past and may yet haunt the century to come."--"Washington Post Book World