From Sparta to Darfur: A Long History of Genocide (Voices on Genocide Prevention)
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From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Length: 00:21:07
Ben Kiernan is the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History. Ben talks to Jerry Fowler about his new book, "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" and how genocide, in practice, is not a recent phenomenon.
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Ben Kiernan is the founding director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History. Ben talks to Jerry Fowler about his new book, "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" and how genocide, in practice, is not a recent phenomenon.
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Posted to US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Web site on September 27, 2007 and is available on various Web-based distribution sites, namely iTunes.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2007, FROM SPARTA TO DARFUR: A LONG HISTORY OF GENOCIDE
JERRY FOWLER: My guest today is Ben Kiernan. He is the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University, and the founding Director of Yale?s Genocide Studies Program. His new book is Blood and Soil, a World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Ben, welcome to the program.
BEN KIERNAN: Glad to be here.
JERRY FOWLER: I guess the first point to make is that even though genocide is a relatively new term, the practice is basically as old as human existence.
BEN KIERNAN: Well, almost. It certainly can be documented at least way back till the 2nd century B.C. The Roman genocide of Carthage comes to mind, but even other ancient genocides are fairly well documented; less so in the Middle Ages, but from the early Modern Period, about 1400, not only does the evidence start to prolife...
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