Blood And Soil by Ben Kiernan
A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
A sweeping global account that traces the origins, ideologies, and practices of mass extermination from ancient times through modern conflicts, arguing that genocide is rooted in intersecting forces—racial and ethnic doctrines, territorial and colonial ambitions, authoritarian state-building, and bureaucratic technologies of killing; through comparative case studies across continents it reveals recurring patterns of dehumanization, legal and political rationalization, and resource-driven dispossession that link episodes from antiquity and colonial conquest to the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Darfur, and it analyzes how international, political, and social conditions enable, perpetuate, or sometimes check such crimes.
- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 800-900
- Original Language
- English
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