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Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Early Modern Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Modern Perspectives
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Back Matter
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'Offers twelve stimulating and generally meticulously researched essays on topics as diverse as female dismemberment in Aztec rituals, rituals of rebellion in early modern England, vengeance in sixteenth-century France, kidnapping for ransom in the Mediterranean during the long nineteenth century, beheadings in early modern Ireland, and aerial warfare between Britain and Germany during the two world wars.' - Robert Gerwarth, English Historical Review
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
STUART CARROLL Senior Lecturer in History, the University of York, UK
CAROLINE DODDS Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, UK
BERND WEISBROD Professor of Modern History, Göttingen University, Germany
JOHN CARTER WOOD Research Fellow in the Department of History, the Open University, UK
ANDY WOOD Reader in Social History, the University of East Anglia, UK
MICHAEL NASSIET Professor of Early Modern History, the University of Angers, France
PATRICA PALMER Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature, the University of York, UK
RICHARD CUST Reader in Early Modern History, the University of Birmingham, UK
ANDY HOPPER Lecturer in English Local History at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, UK
DAVID ANDRESS Reader in Modern European History, the University of Portsmouth, UK
MARTIN BLINKHORN Professor Emeritus, the University of Lancaster, UK
STEVEN C. HUGHES Professor of European history, Loyola College, Maryland, USA
MARTIN J. WEINER Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History, Rice University, USA
BERNHARD RIEGER Lecturer in European history, University College London, UK
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultures of Violence
Book Subtitle: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective
Editors: Stuart Carroll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591820
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-01945-4Published: 23 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28560-0Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59182-0Published: 23 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 271
Topics: Social History, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History