Blood and Soil: Modern Genocide 1500-2000For thirty years Benedict Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon of genocide. This new bookandmdash;the first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient timesandmdash;is among his most important achievements. Kiernan 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. He identifies connections, patterns, and features 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. The ideologies that have motivated perpetrators of mass killings in the past persist in our new century, says Kiernan. He urges that we heed the rich historical evidence with its telltale signs for predicting and preventing future genocides. |
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Review: Blood And Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Recensione dell'utente - Piet Boels - GoodreadsStarted reading this book after a reference in Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of our Nature (978-0141034645). I even postponed finishing the latter read for this book. It is a well researhed book ... Leggi recensione completa
Review: Blood And Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Recensione dell'utente - John Maxwell - GoodreadsExcellent book, theory makes a great deal of sense. Examples are well developed though it takes a while to get through all of it. Leggi recensione completa
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The French conquest of Algeria 183075 | 366 |
German Southwest Africa 18871910 | 380 |
Introductory Note | 393 |
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Nazioccupied Europe 193945 | 434 |
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A Rural Model of Revolutionary Violence | 512 |
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Indonesia and East Timor 196599 | 576 |
Guatemala 195496 | 583 |
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Sudan Darfur and Chad | 595 |
Notes | 607 |
Acknowledgments | 698 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
Aborigines acres agrarian agriculture Amangkurat American ancient Armenian Armenian Genocide army attack Bathurst blacks British Buddhist Burman Cambodia Canny Carthage Casas Cato century Cham Champa Cherokee China Chinese colonial colonists commander Communist conquest Cortés cultivation culture Dadrian death destroyed destruction East Timor English ethnic European extermination farm farmers forces genocidal massacres German governor Helots Herero Hideyoshi historian History Hitler Hutu Ibid ideology Indians indigenous inhabitants Ireland Irish Islamic Island Japan Japanese Jefferson John Batman Karankawas Khmer killed king Korean Lamar land later leaders Livy military million Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar modern Montaukett murder Muslim nation native Nazi official pastoral peasants Peng Pai Pequot perpetrators Pol Pot political population quoted race racial regime reported Roman Rome’s rural Rwanda settlers Sidney slaughter slaves soil soldiers Soviet Spaniards Spanish Sparta Stalin territorial towns tribes troops Tutsi Viet Vietnamese villages violence Virgil Wiradjuri women and children wrote