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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Yale University Press
Price: $40.00
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BEN KIERNAN discusses Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Harvard Book Store welcomes Yales's Ben Kiernan as part of our Friday Forum series to discuss his new work, a first global history of genocide from ancient times. For thirty years Kiernan has been deeply involved in the study of genocide and crimes against humanity. He has played a key role in unearthing confidential documentation of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. His writings have transformed our understanding not only of twentieth-century Cambodia but also of the historical phenomenon of genocide. This new book—the first global history of genocide and extermination from ancient times—is among his most important achievements. “Ben Kiernan’s Blood and Soil is a major work explaining myths and metaphors that have underwritten genocide for six hundred years—earlier within the bowels of the western tradition; now commonplace practice far beyond that tradition. In seeing genocide as linked to issues of land as well as race, nation, and expansion, Kiernan has opened up social, political, and economic analysis to the struggle for land and the control of property. Such an approach is unique as it is provocative. It is inspired by the author’s profound reading of Cambodia and Southeast Asia. Blood and Soil provides an angle of vision rarely found in those who start (and stop) with a European base of scholarship. The book opens up new questions and formulations on the nature of state inspired murder. It merits a close reading of the dark side of terror, often commented upon, but rarely probed.” —Irving Louis Horowitz, Rutgers University
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617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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mcook@harvardsquarebookstore.com
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Friday, September 28th |
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3:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Ben Kiernan is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, professor of international and area studies, and the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. His previous books include How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975 and The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, published by Yale University Press.
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