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



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Titolo: A global history of early modern violence / Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [s.l.] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
Disciplina: 363.3209
Soggetto topico: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture
Technology
Soggetto non controllato: Banditry
Early Modern World
Ideology
Militarisation
Piracy
Raiding
Restraint
Slavery
Violence
War
Persona (resp. second.): ChartersErica
HoullemareMarie
WilsonPeter H
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.
Titolo autorizzato: A global history of early modern violence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-4061-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910477301003321
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