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The Cambridge World History of Violence

Volume 3. AD 1500–AD 1800

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Part of The Cambridge World History of Violence

Editors:
Robert Antony, Guangzhou University
Stuart Carroll, University of York
Caroline Dodds Pennock, University of Sheffield

Robert Antony, Trevor Burnard, Cécile Vidal, Hal Langfur, Molly Greene, Wolfgang Gabbert, Kenneth Swope, Matthew Restall, William Pinch, Peter H. Wilson, Richard Rathbone, Matthew H. Sommer, Constantine N. Vaporis, John G. McCurdy, Elizabeth Malcolm, Dianne Hall, Pieter Spierenburg, David Lederer, Nancy Shields Kollmann, Thomas Buoye, Jack Marietta, Sara Beam, George Dutton, Kris Lane, Robert J. Antony, Julius Ruff, Thomas DuBois, Robert W. Thurston, Penny Roberts, Bruce Boehrer, Federico Navarrete Linares, Vinita Damodaran, Ayesha Mukherjee, Stuart Carroll, Tolga U. Esmer, Charles Zika

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Date Published: March 2020
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781107119116

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In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of popular resistance, and the manifestations of ethnic and racial unrest. It also provided the raw material for profound meditations on humanity and for examining our relationship to the divine and natural worlds. The third volume of The Cambridge World History of Violence examines a world in which global empires were consolidated and expanded, and in which civilisations for the first time linked to each other by trans-oceanic contacts and a sophisticated world trade system.
- Not simply a summation of expert current knowledge, but provides original explanatory frameworks for understanding the problem of violence
- Takes a thematic approach that provides a template for thinking about violence in a global context
- A comprehensive introduction shows the potential of world history for rethinking traditional historical problems in new and productive ways across time and space
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Product details
- Date Published: March 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107119116
- length: 732 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 37 mm
- weight: 1.28kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Introduction Robert Antony
Part I. Empire, Race and Ethnicity:
1. Violence and the slave trade in the Atlantic world Trevor Burnard
2. Violence and race in Colonial America Cécile Vidal
3. Violence and race in Colonial Latin America Hal Langfur
4. Violence, race and religion in the Ottoman Empire Molly Greene
Part II. Warfare:
5. Human sacrifice in the Americas, ritualized violence and the Colonial encounter in the Americas, 1500 to 1800 Wolfgang Gabbert
6. Chinese ways of warfare Kenneth Swope
7. Violence and war in the Colonial Americas Matthew Restall
8. Warrior ascetics and the Indian Empire William Pinch
9. Warfare in Europe Peter H. Wilson
10. Approaching violence in Africa before the Imperial age Richard Rathbone
Part III. Intimate and Gendered Violence:
11. Legal understandings of sexual and domestic violence in early modern China Matthew H. Sommer
12. Samurai, masculinity and violence in Japan Constantine N. Vaporis
13. Gender and violence in early America John G. McCurdy
14. Sexual and domestic violence in Europe Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall
15. Men fighting: Europe from a global perspective Pieter Spierenburg
16. Suicide in the early modern world David Lederer
Part V. The State, Punishment and Justice:
17. Crime and punishment in the Russian Empire Nancy Shields Kollmann
18. Homicide and punishment in China Thomas Buoye
19. Crime and justice in the Americas Jack Marietta
20. Violence and justice in Europe: punishment, torture, execution Sara Beam
21. Legitimized violence in Colonial Spanish America Matthew Restall
Part V. Popular Protest and Resistance:
22. Rebellion and violence in Vietnam George Dutton
23. Piracy in Asia and the West Kris Lane and Robert J. Antony
24. Riots, rebellions and revolutions in Europe Julius Ruff
Part VI. Religious, Sacred and Ritualized Violence:
25. Violence, religion and the state in East Asia Thomas DuBois
26. Persecution: heresy and witchcraft Robert W. Thurston
27. Inter-communal violence in Europe Penny Roberts
28. 'Little Odious Vermin': violence, animals, and sport in Europe and the Colonies, 1500–1800 Bruce Boehrer
Part VII. Representations and Constructions of Violence:
29. Mediating violence: intercultural representations in the Colonization of the Americas Federico Navarrete Linares
30. Violence identity and representation in seventeenth century South Asia Vinita Damodaran and Ayesha Mukherjee
31. Spectacles of violence in South China Robert J. Antony
32. Violence, civility and civilisation in Europe Stuart Carroll
33. Tales of banditry, corruption, and sovereignty in the late Ottoman Empire Tolga U. Esmer
34. Visual representations of violence in Europe Charles Zika.
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Editors
Robert Antony, Guangzhou University
Robert Antony is Distinguished Professor and Senior Researcher in Guangzhou University's Canton's Thirteen Hongs Research Centre. His research focuses on China's social, legal, and maritime history, and his publications include Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003), Pirates in the Age of Sail (2007), and Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China (2016).
Stuart Carroll, University of York
Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He is a three-time winner of the Nancy Roelker Prize awarded by the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society. In 2009 he won the Russell J. Major Prize from the American Historical Association for his third book, Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe.
Caroline Dodds Pennock, University of Sheffield
Caroline Dodds Pennock is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. Her first book, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Society (2008) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize. She is currently working on the neglected history of Native Americans in Europe and is involved in a major international project, based at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, on 'Human Sacrifice and Value: The Limits of Sacred Violence'.
Contributors
Robert Antony, Trevor Burnard, Cécile Vidal, Hal Langfur, Molly Greene, Wolfgang Gabbert, Kenneth Swope, Matthew Restall, William Pinch, Peter H. Wilson, Richard Rathbone, Matthew H. Sommer, Constantine N. Vaporis, John G. McCurdy, Elizabeth Malcolm, Dianne Hall, Pieter Spierenburg, David Lederer, Nancy Shields Kollmann, Thomas Buoye, Jack Marietta, Sara Beam, George Dutton, Kris Lane, Robert J. Antony, Julius Ruff, Thomas DuBois, Robert W. Thurston, Penny Roberts, Bruce Boehrer, Federico Navarrete Linares, Vinita Damodaran, Ayesha Mukherjee, Stuart Carroll, Tolga U. Esmer, Charles Zika