Blood Rites: Origins and the History of the Passions of War - Brossura

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1860495699 ISBN 13: 9781860495694

Casa editrice: Virago Press Ltd, 1998

Riassunto

What draws our species to war and makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? In Blood Rites, renowned social critic Barbara Ehrenreich plumbs the mystery of the human attraction to violence. In this sweeping work, she takes us on an original journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the spectacular human sacrifices of pre-colonial Central America to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century 'total war'. Ehrenreich traces the evolution of war from prehistoric forms of socially-sanctioned violence to the mass religion we know today as nationalism, and shows the persistence of ancient fears in the most modern rituals and passions of war. Brillant in conception, rich in detail, epic in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that will transform our understanding of the archaic practice that has become the biggest single threat to human life.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Virago Press Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1860495699
• ISBN 13: 9781860495694
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304