A global history of early mode violence

by: Erica Charters (Editor),Marie Houllemare (Editor),Peter H. Wilson (Editor)&0more

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Publication Date: 2020/9/1

Language: English

Print Length: 320 pages

ISBN-10: 1526140608

ISBN-13: 9781526140609

Book Description

This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early mode world. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, it questions the established narrative that violence was only curbed through the rise of weste-style nation states and civil societies. Global history allows us to reframe and challenge traditional models for the history of violence and to rethink categories and units of analysis through comparisons. By decentring Europe and exploring alteative pattes of violence, the contributors to this volume articulate the significance of violence in narratives of state- and empire-building, as well as in their failure and decline, while also providing new means of tracing the transition from the early mode to modeity.

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This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early mode world. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, it questions the established narrative that violence was only curbed through the rise of weste-style nation states and civil societies. Global history allows us to reframe and challenge traditional models for the history of violence and to rethink categories and units of analysis through comparisons. By decentring Europe and exploring alteative pattes of violence, the contributors to this volume articulate the significance of violence in narratives of state- and empire-building, as well as in their failure and decline, while also providing new means of tracing the transition from the early mode to modeity.