A global history of early modern violence
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,...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-351332025-07-31T07:38:26Z A global history of early modern violence Charters, Erica Houllemare, Marie Wilson, Peter H. Technology & Engineering Agriculture thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming 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. 2021-02-10T14:23:39Z 2021-02-10T14:23:39Z 2021-02-04T04:31:28Z 2020 book OCN: 1249169235 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46528 9781526140616 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35133 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46528/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46528/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46528/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46528/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46528/1/external_content.pdf Manchester University Press Manchester University Press bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9781526140616 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books Manchester University Press open access |
| spellingShingle | Technology & Engineering Agriculture thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming A global history of early modern violence |
| title | A global history of early modern violence |
| title_full | A global history of early modern violence |
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| topic | Technology & Engineering Agriculture thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming |
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