books.google.co.uk - Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth century phenomenon. In The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide, Mark Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Genocide_in_the_Age_of_the_Nation_State.html?id=3PsLXeDflfMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGenocide in the Age of the Nation State