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The Cambridge World History of Violence

The Cambridge World History of Violence
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    Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson, Matthew Trundle, Matthew Gordon, Richard Kaeuper, Harriet Zurndorfer, Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, Jay Winter
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    • Date Published: March 2020
    • availability: In stock
    • format: Multiple copy pack
    • isbn: 9781316626887

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    • This four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world. It capitalises on the growing scholarly interest in the history of violence, which is emerging as one of the key intellectual issues of our time. The volumes take into account the latest scholarship in the field and comprises the work of nearly 140 scholars, who have contributed 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 a compendium of experience shared by peoples across time.

      • Provides the first long-term study of violence, allowing us to place today's world and its social problems in a much broader chronological context
      • Provides an accessible compendium to non-specialist readers; a readable account of the history of this crucial phenomenon; and a forward-looking project, exploring where current trends in research might, or should, lead over the coming years
      • The latest scholarship in a dynamic field, taking a specifically historical stance and focusing squarely on the changing nature of violence from pre-historic times to the present
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      Awards

      • Winner, 2021 PROSE Award - Single and Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers

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      'It will serve as the first port of call for anyone interested in the manifold manifestations of violence in history, whether for accessible and eye-opening surveys or for up-to-date bibliography to support further investigation.' Walter Scheidel, H-Net Review

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      • Date Published: March 2020
      • format: Multiple copy pack
      • isbn: 9781316626887
      • length: 2805 pages
      • dimensions: 220 x 370 x 240 mm
      • weight: 5.52kg
      • availability: In stock
    • Table of Contents

      Volume 1. The Cambridge World History of Violence: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson and Matthew Trundle. Volume 2. The Cambridge World History of Violence: AD 500–AD 1500 Matthew Gordon, Richard Kaeuper and Harriet Zurndorfer. Volume 3. The Cambridge World History of Violence: AD 1500–AD 1800 Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll and Caroline Dodds Pennock. Volume 4. The Cambridge World History of Violence:
      1800 to the Present Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter.

    • General Editors

      Phillip Dwyer, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
      Philip Dwyer is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the editor of Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History (2012) and Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (with Amanda Nettelbeck, 2017). He is also the author of Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799 (2007), which won the Australian National Biography Award in 2008; Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (2013); and more recently Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815–1840 (2018).

      Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne
      Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of numerous books which include Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005, winner of the Ernest Scott Prize); Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840–1940 (Cambridge, 2010) and Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War (Cambridge, 2015). Professor Damousi is currently the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Australian Historical Association, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

      Contributors

      Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson, Matthew Trundle, Matthew Gordon, Richard Kaeuper, Harriet Zurndorfer, Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, Jay Winter

      Awards

      • Winner, 2021 PROSE Award - Single and Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers

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