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Cultures of violence, interpersonal violence in historical perspective, edited by Stuart Carroll

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Some of these essays presented at the 'Fourth York Cultural History Conference', April 2005.

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Cultures of violence

1088474988

edited by Stuart Carroll

interpersonal violence in historical perspective

Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. While there is an enduring fascination with war and state violence, from military history to the study of genocide, historians have been more reticent about studying interpersonal violence, despite the huge role it plays in human affairs. This timely collection, which focuses on the post-medieval West, brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.--Provided by publisher

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 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