A global history of early modern violence
By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations, legitimations,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
Manchester University Press
2020.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655351306719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures, maps, and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 'None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he'
- 2 Both benevolent and brutal
- 3 Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam
- 4 Towards a political economy of conquest
- 5 Ravages and depredations
- Part II: Restraint and excess
- 6 Breaking the Pax Hispanica
- 7 Restraining/encouraging violence
- 8 Restraining violence on the seas
- 9 'The wrath of God'
- Part III: Differentiation and identification
- 10 'Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre'
- 11 Atlantic slave systems and violence
- 12 A 'theatre of bloody carnage'
- 13 Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern
- Select bibliography
- Index
