A global history of early modern violence / Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson

• Record Nr.: UNISA996552365503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [s.l.] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
• ISBN: 1-5261-4061-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.3209
• Soggetti: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture; Technology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodologies of the study of violence into the history of war, thereby extending the historical significance of both fields of research. Thirteen case studies outline the myriad ways in which large-scale violence was understood and used by states and non-state actors throughout the early modern period across Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Atlantic, and Europe, demonstrating that it was far more complex than would be suggested by simple narratives of conquest and resistance. Moreover, key features of imperial violence apply equally to large-scale violence within societies. As the authors argue, violence was a continuum, ranging from small-scale, local actions to full-blown war. The latter was privileged legally and increasingly associated with states during early modernity, but its legitimacy was frequently contested and many of its violent forms, such as raiding and destruction of buildings and crops, could be found in activities not officially classed as war.

Historians across borders : writing American history in a global age / / edited by Nicolas Barreyre [and three others] ; contributors Natsuka Aruga [and twenty nine others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822014303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-95805-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 p.)
• Classificazione: HIS016000HIS036000
• Altri autori (Persone): BarreyreNicolas; ArugaNatsuka
• Disciplina: 973.072
• Soggetti: Historiography - Europe; United States Historiography; United States History Study and teaching Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Location and History -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Watersheds in Time and Place: Writing American History in Europe -- 2. Using the American Past for the Present: European Historians and the Relevance of Writing American History -- 3. Institutions, Careers, and the Many Paths of U.S. History in Europe -- 4. Straddling Intellectual Worlds: Positionality and the Writing of American History -- 5. Writing American History from Europe: The Elusive Substance of the Comparative Approach -- 6. American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives: Geopolitics and the Writing of History -- 7. Location and the Conceptualization of Historical Frameworks: Early American History and Its Multiple Reconfigurations in the United States and in Europe -- 8. Positionality, Ambidexterity, and Global Frames -- 9. Reflections from Russia -- 10. Doing U.S. History in Australia: A Comparative Perspective -- 11. Viewing American History from Japan: The Potential of Comparison -- 12. Not Quite at Home: Writing American History in Denmark -- 13. American History in the Shadow of Empire: A Plea for Marginality -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries. Arguing that historical writing is conditioned, crucially, by the place from which it is written, this volume identifies the formative impact of a wide variety of institutional and cultural factors that are commonly overlooked. Examining how American history is written from Europe, the contributors shed light on how history is written in the United States and, indeed, on the way history is written anywhere. The innovative perspectives included in Historians across Borders are designed to reinvigorate American historiography as the rise of global and transnational history is creating a critical need to understand the impact of place on the writing and teaching of history. This book is designed for students in historiography, global and transnational history, and related courses in the United States and abroad, for US historians, and for anyone interested in how historians work.