The origins of violence : religion, history and genocide /
Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in human behavior, performed by evil, murderous regimes such as the Nazis and dictators like Suharto and Pinochet. John Docker argues that the roots of genocide go far deeper into human nature than most people realize. Genocide features wid...
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt183q6cj |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- Genocide as ancient practice : chimpanzees, humans, agricultural society
- Genocide, and questioning of genocide, in the ancient Greek world : Herodotus and Thucydides
- Genocide, trauma and world upside down in ancient Greek tragedy : Aeschylus and Euripides
- Utopia and dystopia : Plato and Cicero's Republics
- Victimology and genocide : the Bible's Exodus, Virgil's Aeneid
- Roman settler imperialism in Britain : narrative and counter-narrative in Tacitus's Agricola and Germania
- The honourable colonizer
- Was enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust?
- Conclusion : can there be an end to violence?