Description
Book SynopsisShows that genocide has been present throughout history, and assesses why it persists in the modern age.
Trade Review'From primatology to ancient Greece and Rome to the Bible, early-modern Europe and the Enlightenment, Docker's profound and original analyses provide a deeply unsettling narrative of the longevity of human practices of group violence' -- Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway University of London
'This is a most interesting and disturbing book. It combines its analysis with a firm commitment to the modern, humanist values of non-violence and internationalism' -- Sabby Sagall, former senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London
Table of ContentsDedication: this book is dedicated to Ned Curthoys
Preface, Acknowledgements, and Contents Page
Introduction
1. Genocide as Ancient Practice: Chimpanzees, Humans, Agricultural Society
2. Genocide, and Questioning of Genocide, in Classical Greece: Herodotus and Thucydides
3. Genocide, Trauma, and World Upside Down in Ancient Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus and Euripides
4. Utopia and Dystopia: Plato and Cicero's Republics
5. Victimology and Genocide: The Bible's Exodus, Virgil's Aeneid
6. Roman Settler Imperialism in Britain: Narrative and Counter Narrative in Tacitus' Agricola and Germania
7. The Honourable Coloniser
8. Was the Enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust?
Conclusion: Can there be an end to violence?
References
Index
