Cultures of violence Interpersonal violence in historical perspective /

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 interdis...

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Group Author: Carroll, Stuart.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230591820
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2007.
Carrier Form: 288 p.
ISBN: 9780230019454
9780230591820 :
0230591825 :
CLC: K01
Contents: Introduction-- S.Carroll PART I: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual-- C.Dodds Religious Languages of Violence: Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes-- B.Weisbrod Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change-- J.Carter Wood PART II: EARLY MODERN PERSPECTIVES Collective Violence, Social drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early modern England-- A.Wood Vengence in Sixteenth-Century France-- M.Nassiet At the Sign of the Head: the Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland-- P.Palmer Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England-- R.Cust & A.Hopper PART III: MODERN PERSPECTIVES Popular Violence in the French Revlolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror-- D.Andress Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and the Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815-1914-- M.Blinkhorn Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy-- S.C.Hughes Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: the Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)-- M.J.Wiener From 'Duels in the Clouds' to 'Exterminating Attacks': Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1814-1945-- B.Rieger.