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We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream of birth. It has been industrialized and domesticated. Our culture has not become accustomed to all violence, to be sure; but enough violence, nonetheless: more than enough, perhaps. Geographies of Violence is a critical human geography of the history of violence, from Ancient Rome and Enlightened wars through to natural disasters, animal slaughter, and genocide. Written incredible insight and flair, this is a thought-provoking text for human geography students and researchers alike.
Pre-industrial Mass Killing The Gift of Death from Ancient Rome to the Aztec Empire
Pre-industrial Mass Killing The Gift of Death from Ancient Rome to the Aztec Empire
Every people, the proverb has it, loves its own form of violence.
In The Cunning of History, Richard Rubenstein (2001: 7) mentions how ‘twentieth-century mass slaughter began in earnest with World War I. About 6,000 people were killed every day for over 1,500 days.’ Martin Gilbert (1995: 541) adds that while ‘20,000 British soldiers were killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme is often recalled with horror … a similar number of soldiers were killed in every four-day period of the First World War’. What I find chilling about this slaughter ...
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