Assaulting the Past : Violence and Civilization in Historical Context.

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This book offers an important contribution to the comparative history of interpersonal violence since the early modern period, a subject of great contemporary and historical importance. Its overarching theme is Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process, and the chapters in the book recog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Katherine D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
Temas:
Violence > History.
Violence > Social aspects.
Human behavior.
Behavior
Violence > Histoire.
Violence > Aspect social.
Comportement humain.
human behavior.
Violence in society.
Social & cultural history.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Human behavior
Violence
Violence > Social aspects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Violence and the "civilizing process." Locating violence : the spatial production and construction of physical aggression / J. Carter Wood
  • Cruel inflictions and the claims of humanity in early nineteenth-century England / Randall McGowen
  • Blasphemy and the anti-civilizing process / David Nash
  • The emergence and breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process / Steve Hall
  • Violence and social order. Violence, social order, the state and the absence of "regulation" in working-class communities in eighteenth-century England / Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton
  • Settling their differences : the nature of assault and its prosecution in the city of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Drew Gray
  • Violence and disorder, 1880-1914 : similar trends, similar offences and similar explanations? / Barry Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall
  • Violence and gender. Earth women and eagle warriors : revealing Aztec gender roles through ritual violence / Caroline Dodds
  • Spiralling out of control? : female violence in eighteenth-century London and Mexico / Jennine Hurl-Eamon and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
  • "The lady-killers" : homicidal women in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday
  • Violence and the civilized society. "Do you want to pick a fight out of me, or what do you want?" : homicide and personal animosity in pre-famine and famine Ireland / Richard McMahon
  • Insanity and the "civilizing process" : violence, the insane and asylums in the nineteenth century / Cathy Smith
  • "A state of personal danger" : domestic violence in England, 1903-1922 / Gail Savage
  • Serial homicide and "civilization" / Katherine D. Watson.

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