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the cambridge world history of VIOLENCE This book explores one of the most intractable problems of humanexistence–ourpropensitytoinflictviolence.Itprovides readerswithcasestudiesofpolitical,social,economic,religious, structuralandinterpersonalviolencefromacrosstheentireglobe 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 narratedthestoriesofitsimpacts.Readersalsogaininsightinto the mechanisms by which the parameters about the acceptable limitstoandlocationsofviolencehavedramaticallyalteredover 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 humanviolence.Annotatedbibliographiesprovideoverviewsof theshapeoftheresearchfield. LOUISE EDWARDS is Scientia Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research explores womeninpoliticsinChinaandAsiaandgenderedculturesofwarin China,aswellasChineseliteratureandintellectualhistory.Hermost recent sole-authored books include Gender Politics and Democracy: Women’sSuffrageinChina(2008),WomenWarriorsandWartimeSpies of China (2016) and Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in RepublicanChina(2020).ProfessorEdwardsisaFellowoftheAustralian Academy of the Social Sciences, the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesandtheHongKongAcademyoftheHumanities. NIGEL PENN isProfessorofHistoryattheUniversityofCapeTown. He has written about the impact of colonialism on the Khoisan societies of southern Africa and on the nature of early colonial societyinboththeDutchandtheBritishperiods.Heistheco-editor ofseveralbooksincludingWrittenCultureinaColonialContext:Africa andtheAmericas,1500–1900(withAdrienDelmas2011,2012)andmost recently Science,AfricaandEurope:ProcessingInformation andCreating Knowledge(withMartinLengwilerandPatrickHarries,2019).Among hissole-authoredbooksisTheForgottenFrontier:ColonistandKhoisanon theCape’sNorthernFrontierintheEighteenthCentury(2005). JAY WINTERisCharlesJ.StilleProfessorofHistoryEmeritusatYale University.HeisaspecialistonWorldWarIanditsimpactonthe twentiethcentury,andtheauthororco-authorofSocialismandthe ChallengeofWar:IdeasandPoliticsinBritain,1912–18;SitesofMemory, SitesofMourning:TheGreatWarinEuropeanCulturalHistory;TheGreat WarandtheShapingofthe20thCentury:ReneCassinandtheRightsof Man;andmostrecently,WarbeyondWords:LanguagesofRemembrance from the Great War to the Present. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Graz, the University of Paris-VIII, and the Katholieke University of Leuven. He is a founder of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, at Péronne, Somme, France. the cambridge history of VIOLENCE GeneralEditors PhilipDwyer,UniversityofNewcastle,NewSouthWales JoyDamousi,UniversityofMelbourne This four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence is the first collectionofitskindtolookatviolenceacrossdifferentperiodsof humanhistoryanddifferentregionsoftheworld.Itcapitaliseson thegrowingscholarlyinterestinthehistoryofviolence,whichis emerging as one of the key intellectual issues of our time. The volumes takeintoaccount the latestscholarship inthe fieldand comprisetheworkofnearly140scholars,whohavecontributed substantial chapters to provide an authoritative treatment of violence from a multiplicity of perspectives. The collection thus offers the reader a wide-ranging thematic treatment of the historical contexts of different types of violence, as well as acompendiumofexperiencesharedbypeoplesacrosstime. VOLUMEI ThePrehistoricandAncientWorlds editedbygarrettg.fagan,lindafibiger,markhudsonand matthewtrundle VOLUMEII 500–1500CE editedbymatthews.gordon,richardw.kaeuperand harrietzurndorfer VOLUMEIII 1500–1800CE editedbyrobertantony,stuartcarrolland carolinedoddspennock VOLUMEIV 1800tothePresent editedbylouiseedwards,nigelpennandjaywinter THE CAMBRIDGE WORLD HISTORY OF VIOLENCE * VOLUME IV 1800 to the Present * Editedby LOUISE EDWARDS UniversityofNewSouthWales,Sydney NIGEL PENN UniversityofCapeTown JAY WINTER YaleUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107151567 DOI:10.1017/9781316585023 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2020 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2020 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Four-volumesetISBN978-1-316-62688-7Hardback VolumeIISBN978-1-107-12012-9Hardback VolumeIIISBN978-1-107-15638-8Hardback VolumeIIIISBN978-1-107-11911-6Hardback VolumeIVISBN978-1-107-15156-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. the cambridge world history of VIOLENCE This book explores one of the most intractable problems of humanexistence–ourpropensitytoinflictviolence.Itprovides readerswithcasestudiesofpolitical,social,economic,religious, structuralandinterpersonalviolencefromacrosstheentireglobe 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 narratedthestoriesofitsimpacts.Readersalsogaininsightinto the mechanisms by which the parameters about the acceptable limitstoandlocationsofviolencehavedramaticallyalteredover 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 humanviolence.Annotatedbibliographiesprovideoverviewsof theshapeoftheresearchfield. LOUISE EDWARDS is Scientia Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research explores womeninpoliticsinChinaandAsiaandgenderedculturesofwarin China,aswellasChineseliteratureandintellectualhistory.Hermost recent sole-authored books include Gender Politics and Democracy: Women’sSuffrageinChina(2008),WomenWarriorsandWartimeSpies of China (2016) and Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in RepublicanChina(2020).ProfessorEdwardsisaFellowoftheAustralian Academy of the Social Sciences, the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesandtheHongKongAcademyoftheHumanities. NIGEL PENN isProfessorofHistoryattheUniversityofCapeTown. He has written about the impact of colonialism on the Khoisan societies of southern Africa and on the nature of early colonial societyinboththeDutchandtheBritishperiods.Heistheco-editor ofseveralbooksincludingWrittenCultureinaColonialContext:Africa andtheAmericas,1500–1900(withAdrienDelmas2011,2012)andmost recently Science,AfricaandEurope:ProcessingInformation andCreating Knowledge(withMartinLengwilerandPatrickHarries,2019).Among hissole-authoredbooksisTheForgottenFrontier:ColonistandKhoisanon theCape’sNorthernFrontierintheEighteenthCentury(2005). JAY WINTERisCharlesJ.StilleProfessorofHistoryEmeritusatYale University.HeisaspecialistonWorldWarIanditsimpactonthe twentiethcentury,andtheauthororco-authorofSocialismandthe ChallengeofWar:IdeasandPoliticsinBritain,1912–18;SitesofMemory, SitesofMourning:TheGreatWarinEuropeanCulturalHistory;TheGreat WarandtheShapingofthe20thCentury:ReneCassinandtheRightsof Man;andmostrecently,WarbeyondWords:LanguagesofRemembrance from the Great War to the Present. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Graz, the University of Paris-VIII, and the Katholieke University of Leuven. He is a founder of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, at Péronne, Somme, France. the cambridge history of VIOLENCE GeneralEditors PhilipDwyer,UniversityofNewcastle,NewSouthWales JoyDamousi,UniversityofMelbourne This four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence is the first collectionofitskindtolookatviolenceacrossdifferentperiodsof humanhistoryanddifferentregionsoftheworld.Itcapitaliseson thegrowingscholarlyinterestinthehistoryofviolence,whichis emerging as one of the key intellectual issues of our time. The volumes takeintoaccount the latestscholarship inthe fieldand comprisetheworkofnearly140scholars,whohavecontributed substantial chapters to provide an authoritative treatment of violence from a multiplicity of perspectives. The collection thus offers the reader a wide-ranging thematic treatment of the historical contexts of different types of violence, as well as acompendiumofexperiencesharedbypeoplesacrosstime. VOLUMEI ThePrehistoricandAncientWorlds editedbygarrettg.fagan,lindafibiger,markhudsonand matthewtrundle VOLUMEII 500–1500CE editedbymatthews.gordon,richardw.kaeuperand harrietzurndorfer VOLUMEIII 1500–1800CE editedbyrobertantony,stuartcarrolland carolinedoddspennock VOLUMEIV 1800tothePresent editedbylouiseedwards,nigelpennandjaywinter
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