The origins of violence : religion, history and genocide / / John Docker

• Autore: Docker John
• Pubblicazione: London, : Pluto Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.66309
• Soggetto topico: Genocide - History; Genocide - Religious aspects - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 GENOCIDE AS ANCIENT PRACTICE: CHIMPANZEES, HUMANS, AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY -- 2 GENOCIDE, AND QUESTIONING OF GENOCIDE, IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD: 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'S AGRICOLA AND GERMANIA -- 7 THE HONOURABLE COLONIZER -- 8 WAS THE ENLIGHTENMENT THE ORIGIN OF THE HOLOCAUST? -- 10 CONCLUSION: CAN THERE BE AN END TO VIOLENCE? -- NOTES -- INDEX.
• Titolo autorizzato: The origins of violence
• ISBN: 1-84964-322-9; 1-281-87872-3; 9786611878726; 1-4356-9072-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813560103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II