CULTURES OF VIOLENCE: INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; ED. BY STUART CARROLL

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'. While there is an enduring fascination with war and state violence - shelf upon bookshop shelf are lined with the arcania of military history, and degree programmes are now devoted 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 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. Female Dismemberment And Decapitation : Gendered Understandings Of Power In Aztec Ritual Violence / Caroline Dodds -- Religious Languages Of Violence : Some Reflections On The Reading Of Extremes / Bernd Weisbrod -- Conceptualizing Cultures Of Violence And Cultural Change / John Carter Wood -- Collective Violence, Social Drama And Rituals Of Rebellion In Late Medieval And Early Modern England / Andy Wood -- Vengeance In Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century France / Michel Nassiet -- At The Sign Of The Head : The Currency Of Beheading In Early Modern Ireland / Patricia Palmer -- Duelling And The Court Of Chivalry In Early Stuart England / Richard Cust And Andrew Hopper -- Popular Violence In The French Revolution : Revolt, Retribution And The Slide To State Terror / David Andress -- Avoiding The Ultimate Act Of Violence : Mediterranean Bandits And Kidnapping For Ransom, 1815-1914 / Martin Blinkhorn -- Swords And Daggers : Class Conceptions Of Interpersonal Violence In Liberal Italy / Steven C. Hughes -- Race, Class And Maritime Authority In Late Victorian England : The Surprising Cases Of Charles Arthur (1888) And Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891) / Martin J. Wiener -- From 'duels In The Clouds' To 'exterminating Attacks' : Legitimizing Aerial Warfare In Britain And Germany, 1914-45 / Bernhard Rieger. Edited By Stuart Carroll. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-43 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual Violence....Pages 47-63 Religious Languages of Violence. Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes....Pages 64-78 Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change....Pages 79-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Collective Violence, Social Drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early Modern England....Pages 99-116 Vengeance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France....Pages 117-128 At the Sign of the Head: The Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland....Pages 129-155 Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England....Pages 156-171 Front Matter....Pages 173-173 Popular Violence in the French Revolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror....Pages 175-191 Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815–1914....Pages 192-211 Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy....Pages 212-235 Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: The Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)....Pages 236-246 From ‘Duels in the Clouds’ to ‘Exterminating Attacks’: Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1914–45....Pages 247-264 Back Matter....Pages 265-271