Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur /

Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur /

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Author / Creator:Kiernan, Ben.
Imprint:New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (x, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Genocide.
Crimes against humanity.
Crimes against humanity.
Genocide.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11195166
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ISBN:9780300137934
0300137931
1282089323
9781282089327
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-697) and index.
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Summary:This book, the first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times, examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides. Connections, patterns, and features are identified that in nearly every case gave early warning of the catastrophe to come. Racism or religious prejudice, territorial expansionism, and cults of antiquity and agrarianism are ideologies that have motivated perpetrators of mass killings in the past, and persist even in our new century. The author urges that we heed the rich historical evidence with its telltale signs for predicting and preventing future genocides.
Other form:Print version: Kiernan, Ben. Blood and soil. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2007 9780300100983 0300100981

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