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List of contents
Introduction Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter; Part I. Race, Religion and Nationalism: 1. Empires and indigenous worlds: violence and the Pacific Ocean, 1760 to 1930s Patricia O'Brien; 2. Religious violence in late Imperial China Thomas David Dubois; 3. Violence, non-violence, the state, and the nation: India, 1858-1958 Kama Maclean and Benjamin Zachariah; 4. Racial violence in North America since the Civil War Jason Morgan Ward; 5. Religion and violence in modern South Asia Mark Juergensmeyer; 6. Violence in the Middle East Hamit Bozarslan; Part II. Intimate and Gendered Violence: 7. A global history of sexual violence Joanna Bourke; 8. Sexual and domestic violence in global perspective Lisa Featherstone; 9. Homicide in global perspective Pieter Siedenburg; 10. Violence and sport, 1800-2000 Emma Griffin; Part III. Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World: 11. Frontier violence in the British Empire Lyndall Ryan and Amanda Nettelbeck; 12. Genealogies of modern violence, Arendt and imperialism in Africa, 1830-1914 Benjamin Claude Brower; 13. Political and public violence in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey Hans-Lukas Kieser; 14. Violence and the First World War Bruno Cabanes; 15. Violence and the Second World War Jochen Hellbeck; 16. Violence and the Japanese Empire Takashi Yoshida; Part IV. The State, Revolution and Social Change: Introduction; 17. Change and continuity in collective violence in France, 1780-1870 Peter McPhee and Jeremy Teow; 18. The concentration camp Dan Ston; 19. Geographies of genocide: the European Rimlands, 1912-53 Mark Levene; 20. Violence during the Great Leap Forward in Mao's China, 1958-1961 Zhou Xun; 21. Mass murder in Indonesia and its aftermaths Gerry van Klinken; 22. The violence of the Cold War Heonik Kwon; 23. Crime and punishment in modern Africa James P. Daughton; 24. Violence, the state and revolution in Latin America Robert H. Holden; 25. The contradictions of mass violence in Cambodia, 1975-1979 James Tyner; 26. Terrorism in the modern world Randall Law; Part V. Representations and Constructions of Violence: 27. Criminal violence and culture in Europe Clive Emsley; 28. Extreme violence and Western cinema James Kendrick; 29. Representations of violence through the media Jolyon Mitchell; 30. Remembering and forgetting violence in the twentieth century Joy Damousi, Jordana Silverstein and Mary Tomsic.
About the author
Louise Edwards is Scientia Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her research explores women in politics in China and Asia and gendered cultures of war in China, as well as Chinese literature and intellectual history. Her most recent sole-authored books include Gender Politics and Democracy: Women's Suffrage in China (2008) and Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China (2016), and Citizens of Beauty: Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China (forthcoming). Professor Edwards is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities.Nigel Penn is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He has written about the impact of colonialism on the Khoisan societies of southern Africa and on the nature of early colonial society in both the Dutch and British periods. He is the co-editor of several books including Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas, 1500–1900 (with Adrien Delmas 2011), and most recently Science, Africa and Europe: Processing Information and Creating Knowledge (with Martin Lengwiler and Patrick Harries, 2019). Among his sole-authored books is The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the Eighteenth Century (2005).Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, Connecticut. He is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the twentieth century, and the author or co-author of twenty-five books, including Socialism and the Challenge of War: Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912–18 (2014); Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995); 1914–1918: Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996); Rene Cassin and Human Rights (with Antoine Prost, 2013); and most recently, War beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from The Great War to the Present (2017). In addition he has edited or co-edited thirty books and contributed 130 book chapters to edited volumes. He is a founder of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, at Péronne, Somme, France.
