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Feb 17, 2009 · "Ben Kiernan’s Blood and Soil is a major work explaining myths and metaphors that have underwritten genocide for six hundred years—earlier within the bowels of the western tradition; now commonplace practice far beyond that tradition. In seeing genocide as linked to issues of land as well as race, nation, and expansion, Kiernan has opened ...
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Jan 1, 2007 · For thirty years Ben 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.
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Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur ( ISBN 978-0300100983) is a 2007 book by Ben Kiernan, who for thirty years has studied genocide and crimes against humanity. In Blood and Soil, Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence, including worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case ...
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Sep 25, 2007 · As an act of scholarship, it simply stands alone.”—Kai Erikson, Yale University (Kai Erikson) “Ben Kiernan’s book is a major contribution to genocide studies — a first attempt to tell the history of genocidal events, from Sparta to Darfur Blood and Soil is a well-researched, detailed account of many instances of mass killings and the ...
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Feb 17, 2009 · Blood and Soil. A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. by Ben Kiernan. Course Book. 768 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in, 38 b-w illus. + 31 maps.
Aug 3, 2021 · x, 724 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm 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 ...
For thirty years Ben 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 book--the first global ...
