Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur / Ben Kiernan.
2007
304.663 K47b 2007
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Title
Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur / Ben Kiernan.
Author
ISBN
9780300100983 (alk. paper)
0300100981 (alk. paper)
0300100981 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Language
English
Description
x, 724 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
304.663 K47b 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)79860405
(OCoLC)79860405
(OCoLC)79860405
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 607-697) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
List of maps
Introduction
pt. 1. Early imperial expansion
1. Classical genocide and early modern memory
2. The Spanish conquest of the new world, 1492-1600
3. Guns and genocide in East Asia, 1400-1600
4. Genocidal massacres in early modern Southeast Asia
pt. 2. Settler colonialism
Introductory note
5. The English conquest of Ireland, 1565-1603
6. Colonial North America, 1600-1776
7. Genocidal violence in nineteenth-century Australia
8. Genocide in the United States
9. Settler genocides in Africa, 1830-1910
pt. 3. Twentieth-century genocides
Introductory note
10. The Armenian genocide : national chauvinism in the waning Ottoman empire
11. Blut und Boden : Germany and nazi genocide
12. Rice, race, and empire : Japan and East Asia
13. Soviet terror and agriculture
14. Maoism in China : a rural model of revolutionary violence
15. From the Mekong to the Nile : genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda
Epilogue : racial and religious slaughter from Bangladesh to Baghdad
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.
Introduction
pt. 1. Early imperial expansion
1. Classical genocide and early modern memory
2. The Spanish conquest of the new world, 1492-1600
3. Guns and genocide in East Asia, 1400-1600
4. Genocidal massacres in early modern Southeast Asia
pt. 2. Settler colonialism
Introductory note
5. The English conquest of Ireland, 1565-1603
6. Colonial North America, 1600-1776
7. Genocidal violence in nineteenth-century Australia
8. Genocide in the United States
9. Settler genocides in Africa, 1830-1910
pt. 3. Twentieth-century genocides
Introductory note
10. The Armenian genocide : national chauvinism in the waning Ottoman empire
11. Blut und Boden : Germany and nazi genocide
12. Rice, race, and empire : Japan and East Asia
13. Soviet terror and agriculture
14. Maoism in China : a rural model of revolutionary violence
15. From the Mekong to the Nile : genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda
Epilogue : racial and religious slaughter from Bangladesh to Baghdad
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.
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