Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur
For thirty years Benedict Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of geonocide and crimes against humanity. This book is the first global history of geonocide and extermination, and kiernan makes an urgent case for understanding the past as the best means to recognise and avoid genocide in the future.
Print Book, English, 2008
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Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., 2008
724 pages [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780522854770, 052285477X
1058050306
Part one: Early imperial expansion; Classical genocide and early modern memory
The Spanish conquest of the new world, 1492-1600
Guns and genocide in East Asia, 1400-1600
Genocidal massacres in early modern Southeast Asia
Part two: Settler colonialism; The English conquest of Ireland, 1565-1603
Colonial North America, 1600-1776
Genocidal violence in nineteenth-century Australia
Genocide in the United States
Settler genocides in Africa, 1830-1910
Part three: Twentieth-century genocides; The Armenian genocide : national chauvinism in the waning Ottoman empire
Blut und boden : Germany and nazi genocide
Rice, race, and empire : Japan and East Asia
Soviet terror and agriculture
Maoism in China : a rural model of revolutionary violence
From the Mekong to the Nile : genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda
Epilogue : racial and religious slaughter from Bangladesh to Baghdad
Previous edition: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007