Bloodlust
On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present
Published on 19. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-4516-2081-8 (ISBN)
Description
Jacoby surveys the history of violence and argues that it is similarities, rather than differences, that drive people to kill one another.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4516-2081-8 (9781451620818)
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04/2011
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Person
Russell Jacoby is the author of seven books including The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, an Andrew Mellon fellowship, a Lehrman fellowship and an NEH grant and has published articles and reviews in American Historical Review, Grand Street, Nation, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper’s and elsewhere. He teaches history at UCLA.