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Informationen zum Autor Philip Dwyer is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. His monograph Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769-1799 (2008) won the Australian National Biography Award. Lyndall Ryan is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the History of Violence, Humanities Research Institute at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her classic text, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981, opened up the field of colonial frontier violence in Australia. Since then she has published widely on settler massacres on the Australian colonial frontier. Klappentext Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between 'massacre' and 'genocide', the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of 'Massacre Studies', dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies. Zusammenfassung Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians! resulting in a growing body of scholarship in recent years. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral! if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare... Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables, Illustrations, and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: The Massacre and History Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan PART I: MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS Chapter 1. The Origins of Massacres John Docker Chapter 2. Massacres in the Peloponnesian War Brian Bosworth Chapter 3. "The Abominable Quibble": Alexander's Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga Elizabeth Baynham Chapter 4. The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul Jane Bellemore Chapter 5. Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle-Ages Laurence W. Marvin Chapter 6. A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53 Inga Jones PART II: THE COLONIAL FRONTIER Chapter 7. Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence Rob Harper Chapter 8. Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836-1851 Lyndall Ryan Chapter 9. Tactics of Nineteenth Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond Benjamin Madley Chapter 10. A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre Blanca Tovías de Plaisted Chapter 11. When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction Katrina Schlunke PART III: CONTESTED NARRATIVES: MEMORY, ATROCITY AND MASSACRE Chapter 12. Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Philip Dwyer Chapter 13. Stalin's Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo Claudia Weber Chapter 14. The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia François-Xavier Nérard Chapter 15. Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965-1966 Massacres in Indonesia Annie Pohlman
