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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ben Kiernan |
| ISBN: | 9780300100983 0300100981 |
| OCLC Number: | 79860405 |
| Description: | x, 724 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Ben Kiernan. |
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Abstract:
Presents global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times. This title examines outbreaks of mass violence from classical era onwards, 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.
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"Both because of [Kiernan''s] academic credentials and the scope of the work "Blood and Soil "is a must-read book. . . . [it] should be read by anyone who wants to get a better handle to the historical scope of genocide."--J.D. Bowers, "E-Wareness!", Genocide and Human Rights Institute--J.D. Bowers"E-Wareness!, Genocide and Human Rights Institute" (05/02/2008) Read more...
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