The Cambridge World History of Violence

The first book to present a global, cross-cultural, historical perspective on violence since 1800, its deep social significances and representations.

Louise Edwards (Edited by), Nigel Penn (Edited by), Jay Winter (Edited by)

9781107151567, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 March 2020

694 pages, 7 b/w illus. 1 map
23.5 x 16 x 3.7 cm, 1.22 kg

This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. It also examines the changing representations of violence in diverse media and the cultural significance of its commemoration. Together, the chapters provide in-depth understanding of the ways that humans have perpetrated violence, justified its use, attempted to contain its spread and narrated the stories of its impacts. Readers also gain insight into the mechanisms by which the parameters about the acceptable limits to and locations of violence have dramatically altered over the course of a few decades. Leading experts from around the world have pooled their knowledge to provide concise, authoritative examinations of the complex phenomenon of human violence. Annotated bibliographies provide overviews of the shape of the research field.

Introduction Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter
Part I. Race, Religion and Nationalism: 1. Empires and indigenous worlds: violence and the Pacific Ocean, 1760 to 1930s Patricia O'Brien
2. Religious violence in late Imperial China Thomas David Dubois
3. Violence, non-violence, the state, and the nation: India, 1858–1958 Kama Maclean and Benjamin Zachariah
4. Racial violence in North America since the Civil War Jason Morgan Ward
5. Religion and violence in modern South Asia Mark Juergensmeyer
6. Violence in the Middle East Hamit Bozarslan
Part II. Intimate and Gendered Violence: 7. A global history of sexual violence Joanna Bourke
8. Sexual and domestic violence in global perspective Lisa Featherstone
9. Homicide in global perspective Pieter Siedenburg
10. Violence and sport, 1800–2000 Emma Griffin
Part III. Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World: 11. Frontier violence in the British Empire Lyndall Ryan and Amanda Nettelbeck
12. Genealogies of modern violence, Arendt and imperialism in Africa, 1830–1914 Benjamin Claude Brower
13. Political and public violence in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey Hans-Lukas Kieser
14. Violence and the First World War Bruno Cabanes
15. Violence and the Second World War Jochen Hellbeck
16. Violence and the Japanese Empire Takashi Yoshida
Part IV. The State, Revolution and Social Change: Introduction
17. Change and continuity in collective violence in France, 1780–1870 Peter McPhee and Jeremy Teow
18. The concentration camp Dan Ston
19. Geographies of genocide: the European Rimlands, 1912–53 Mark Levene
20. Violence during the Great Leap Forward in Mao's China, 1958–1961 Zhou Xun
21. Mass murder in Indonesia and its aftermaths Gerry van Klinken
22. The violence of the Cold War Heonik Kwon
23. Crime and punishment in modern Africa James P. Daughton
24. Violence, the state and revolution in Latin America Robert H. Holden
25. The contradictions of mass violence in Cambodia, 1975–1979 James Tyner
26. Terrorism in the modern world Randall Law
Part V. Representations and Constructions of Violence: 27. Criminal violence and culture in Europe Clive Emsley
28. Extreme violence and Western cinema James Kendrick
29. Representations of violence through the media Jolyon Mitchell
30. Remembering and forgetting violence in the twentieth century Joy Damousi, Jordana Silverstein and Mary Tomsic.

Subject Areas: Violence in society [JFFE], Military history [HBW], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]