LEADER 03680nam 22005053a 450 001 9910477301003321 005 20251116143738.0 010 $a9781526140616 010 $a1526140616 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526140616 035 $a(CKB)5590000000434728 035 $a(OCoLC)1249169235 035 $a(ScCtBLL)f16d90ae-d2fe-4a0d-ba5d-d9f2c62aa17a 035 $a(DE-B1597)659091 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526140616 035 $a(OCoLC)1408681901 035 $a(Perlego)2327209 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000434728 100 $a20211214i20202021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 02$aA global history of early modern violence$fErica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cManchester University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 08$a9781526140609 311 08$a1526140608 327 $tFront matter -- $tContents -- $tList of figures, maps, and tables -- $tNotes on contributors -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 'None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he' -- $t2 Both benevolent and brutal -- $t3 Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam -- $t4 Towards a political economy of conquest -- $t5 Ravages and depredations -- $tPart II: Restraint and excess -- $t6 Breaking the Pax Hispanica -- $t7 Restraining/encouraging violence -- $t8 Restraining violence on the seas -- $t9 'The wrath of God' -- $tPart III: Differentiation and identification -- $t10 'Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre' -- $t11 Atlantic slave systems and violence -- $t12 A 'theatre of bloody carnage' -- $t13 Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern -- $tSelect bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aBy 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. 606 $aTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture$2bisacsh 606 $aTechnology 615 7$aTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture 615 0$aTechnology. 676 $a363.3209 702 $aCharters$b Erica 702 $aHoullemare$b Marie 702 $aWilson$b Peter H. 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477301003321 996 $aA global history of early modern violence$92565166 997 $aUNINA