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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
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May 1, 1998
Reprint edition from Henry Holt & Co (May 1, 1998)
9780805057874 | details & prices | 292 pages | 5.50 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $19.00
About: A study of the human attraction to violence and war ranges from the human sacrifices of the ancient world to the Holocaust, tracing the impulse to slaughter to the blood rites enacted by the earliest human hunters
About: A study of the human attraction to violence and war ranges from the human sacrifices of the ancient world to the Holocaust, tracing the impulse to slaughter to the blood rites enacted by the earliest human hunters
May 1, 1997
from Henry Holt & Co (May 1, 1997)
9780805050776 | details & prices | 292 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Traces the evolution of war from ancient symbolic sacrifices to contemporary total war
About: Traces the evolution of war from ancient symbolic sacrifices to contemporary total war
January 1, 1997
from Diane Pub Co (January 1, 1997)
9780756754389 | details & prices | 292 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $25.00
About: An ALA Notable BookA New York Times Notable BookIn Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking?
About: An ALA Notable BookA New York Times Notable BookIn Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking?