A CRIMINAL HISTORY OF MANKIND

Hardback. 1st US Edn. A new approach to the history and psychology of human crime and violence. The author describes the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians, the murderous opportunism of the Greek pirates, the vicious brutality that made Rome the 'razor king of the Mediterranean', the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter of Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Stalin and Hitler. He explains the changing pattern of crime through the ages up until our own day - when the sex killer and the mass murderer have become symbols of all that is worst in our 'civilisation'. A survey which puts criminality and violence of all kinds in the wider context of history. Contents : Part One: The Psychology of Human Violence; Part Two: A Criminal Outline of History; Part Three: The Age of Mass Murder. With Selected Bibliog. and Index. 702pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. Lightly browned edges o/w Nr. F. in protected Nr. F. pcdw. A heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.