A Global History of Early Modern Violence Understanding Perceptions of Muslims in the News

Uitgever: Manchester University Press

Taal: Engels

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Engels
Hardcover
9781526140609
01 september 2020
320 pagina's

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This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial soldiers and Japanese magistrates.

Violence and its containment have been central to definitions of ‘Western civilization’ and the modern world, with Western legal and political forms often presented as crucial in taming barbarity. This volume questions these assumptions from a global perspective, drawing on examples from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to challenge the idea that violence was only curbed through the rise of Western-style nation states and civil societies.

The book uses global history to re-frame traditional models of the history of violence, re-thinking categories and units of analysis through comparisons. By decentring Europe and exploring alternative patterns of violence, it articulates the significance of violence in narratives of state and empire building, as well as in their failure and decline, while also providing new models for tracing the transition from early modern to modernity. The focus ranges from Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Chinese pirates, and Kurdish highwaymen to Mughal warriors, Vietnamese militias, Spanish colonial soldiers, and Japanese magistrates. Discussions cover violence as a factor in relations between individuals, communities, and central governments, as well as in various forms of imperial and colonial rule, and in real or imagined encounters between peoples of different faiths, ethnicities, and states.

Taking issue with Western historical periodization, the volume ranges from the early sixteenth century to the 1830s. The first broad analysis of large-scale violence and methods of restraint across the early modern world, it will be of interest to scholars and students of global history, the history of state formation, warfare, civil society and legal systems.

This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe, it questions the established narrative that violence was only curbed through the rise of western-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 alternative patterns 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 modern to modernity.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 september 2020
Aantal pagina's: 320
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Hoofdredacteur: Erica Charters
Tweede Redacteur: Marie Houllemare
Co Redacteur: Peter H. Wilson
Hoofduitgeverij: Manchester University Press

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Product breedte: 156 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
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Categorieën: Geschiedenis

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Sociale & Culturele geschiedenis

Algemene & Wereldgeschiedenis

Militaire geschiedenis

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Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

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Taal: Engels
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