The origins of violence
Subtitle: religion, history and genocide
By: John Docker.
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780868409740
Subjects: Violence; Genocide; Aggressiveness; Social groups
Description: "This book "discuss[es] violence and genocide, and question[s] ... violence and genocide, as constitutive of the human condition down the ages. [The] focus is not on violence between individuals, but on intergroup violence. [The] aim is to evoke and explain such intergroup violence in ways that include both physical violence and the violence that inheres in language and culture, in ideas, notions, concepts, narratives, and images."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.