Blood and soil
by Ben Kiernan · first published 2007
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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 h
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I've been reading a lot of your replies. I'm not sure if you're aware of this but > And it is a fact that the vast majority of Israeli people came from other places Is almost a synopsis of Blood and Soil.
on “LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment” ↗…must expel the native and, if necessary, destroy him.' As a French statistical journal urged five years late, 'the system of extermination must give way to a policy of penetration.'" - Ben Kiernan, "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" (2007) This is just one short pithy quote; having done archival research concentrating on this period, I can personally testify that…
on “France bears ‘overwhelming responsibilities’ over Rwanda genocide” ↗