| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Kiernan argues that a convergence of four factors underpins the causes of genocide through the ages: racism, which becomes genocidal when perpetrators imagine a world without certain kinds of people in it (p. 23); cults of antiquity, usually connected to an urgent need to arrest a perceived decline accompanying a preoccupation with restoring purity and order (p. 27); cults of cultivation or
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