Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008
Man Slaughters Man
By William H. McNeill
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
by Ben Kiernan
Yale University Press, 724 pp., $40.00
Blood and Soil presents readers with the tangled record of the inhumanity of which human beings have shown themselves capable throughout recorded history. The author, Ben Kiernan, heads the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University and is a specialist on Pol Pot's Cambodia, having published no fewer than eleven books about one or another aspect of that murderous regime over the past thirty years. By way of contrast, Blood and Soil takes on the whole world, though it mainly 'focuses on the six centuries since 1400.'
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