Cultures of Violence Interpersonal Violence

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.

STUART CARROLL is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of York, UK, and author of Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. He is twice winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best essay on early modern French history and currently working on neighbourliness in Europe during the Reformation.

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptual Perspectives
Female Dismemberment and Decapitation: Gendered Understandings of Power in Aztec Ritual Violence	p. 47
Religious Languages of Violence. Some Reflections on the Reading of Extremes	p. 64
Conceptualizing Cultures of Violence and Cultural Change	p. 79
Early Modern Perspectives
Collective Violence, Social Drama and Rituals of Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early Modern England	p. 99
Vengeance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France	p. 117
At the Sign of the Head: The Currency of Beheading in Early Modern Ireland	p. 129
Duelling and the Court of Chivalry in Early Stuart England	p. 156
Modern Perspectives
Popular Violence in the French Revolution: Revolt, Retribution and the Slide to State Terror	p. 175
Avoiding the Ultimate Act of Violence: Mediterranean Bandits and Kidnapping for Ransom, 1815-1914	p. 192
Swords and Daggers: Class Conceptions of Interpersonal Violence in Liberal Italy	p. 212
Race, Class and Maritime Authority in Late Victorian England: The Surprising Cases of Charles Arthur (1888) and Bagwahn Jassiwara (1891)	p. 236
From 'Duels in the Clouds' to 'Exterminating Attacks': Legitimizing Aerial Warfare in Britain and Germany, 1914-45	p. 247
Index	p. 265
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Cultures of Violence Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective

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