title: The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide
author:  John Docker 
description: John Docker is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. He is the author of 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora (2001), Postmodernism and Popular Culture (1994) and (with Ann Curthoys) Is History Fiction? (2005).
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  THE ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE
  
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  The Origins of Violence
  
  Religion, History and
  
  Genocide
  
  John Docker
  
  Pluto Press
  
  First published 2008 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
  
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  Copyright © John Docker 2008
  
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  1988.
  
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