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Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective
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Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Carroll, Stuart. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230019454
SKU
V9780230019454
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Ref
99-15
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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 ... Read more
Reviews for Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective
'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, ... Read more