Books by Benjamin Lieberman

The first comprehensive history of ethnic cleansing in the making of modern Europe, a process that involved the murder and forced migration of tens of millions of people. "An excellent study, vitally necessary for all those who want to understand the horrors of ethnic cleansing."-John Weiss.

For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities. Tracing the rise of exclusive forms of identity over the past 1500 years, this innovative book explores both the creation and destruction of exclusive identities. Benjamin Lieberman focuses on two critical phases of world history: the age of holy war and conversion, and the age of nationalism and racism. He convincingly shows that efforts to transplant and expand new identities have paradoxically generated long periods of both stability and explosive violence that remade the human landscape around the world.