Full Description
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.
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.
