Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in
human behaviour, 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 realise. Genocide features widely in the Bible, the
literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and debates about the
Enlightenment. These texts are studied in depth to trace the
origins of violence through time and across civilisations.
Developing the groundbreaking work of Raphael Lemkin, who invented
the term 'genocide', Docker guides us from the dawn of agricultural
society, through classical civilisation to the present, showing
that violence between groups has been integral to all periods of
history. This revealing book will be of great interest to those
wishing to understand the roots of genocide and why it persists in
the modern age.
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