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How the Advent of Modernity Shifted Our Perception of Mass Violence
As historian Dierk Walter argues in his book, Colonial Violence, the convenient belief that “savages” and “heathens” did not regulate warfare in any way had to be invented by their imperial opponents. “The Europeans disregarded or flouted existing regional …