Violence and Punishment Civilizing the Body Through Time

PART ONE: Violence
Chapter 1 Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Amsterdam, Fifteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 2 Homicide and the Law in the Dutch Republic: A Peaceful Country?
Chapter 3 Violence and Culture: Bloodshed in Two or Three Worlds

PART TWO: Punishment and Social Control
Chapter 4 Punishment, Power, and History: Foucault and Elias
Chapter 5 Monkey Butt's Mate: On Informal Social Control, Standards of Violence, and Notions of Privacy
Chapter 6 The Green, Green Grass of Home: Reflections on Capital Punishment and the Penal System in Europe and America from a Long-term Perspective

PART THREE: Civilizing the Body in Human History
Chapter 7 Elites and Etiquette: Changing Standards of Personal Conduct in the Netherlands until 1800
Chapter 8 Civilizing Celebrations: An Exploration of the Festive Universe
Chapter 9 The Body's End: Death and Paradise in Human History
Epilogue: A Personal Recollection of Norbert Elias and How I Became a Crime Historian

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