Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide - Paperbackby Mark Levene (Author) Author Biography Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History in the Department of History and the Parkes Institute for Jewish non Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. His research ranges from Jewish history to genocide and climate change and his most recent book is History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts, eds.). He is founder of