Power, violence and mass death in pre-modern and modern times / edited by Joseph Canning, Hartmut Lehmann, Jay Winter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canning, Joseph, 1944-

Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936-

Winter, J. M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Europe--History.

Violence.

Violent crimes--Europe--History.

Violent crimes.

Genocide--Europe--History--20th century.

Genocide.

War.

Famines--Europe--History.

Famines.

Social classes--Europe--History.

Social classes.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: The Fourteenth, the Seventeenth and the Twentieth Centuries as Centuries of Violence and Mass Death / Hartmut Lehmann 1

Part I Fourteenth Century

1 The Crisis of the Fourteenth Century / Joseph Canning 9

2 Famine and Popular Resistance: Northern Europe, 1315-22 / William Chester Jordan 13

3 The Black Death: The End of a Paradigm / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 25

4 War in Fourteenth-Century Europe / A.D. Carr 67

Part II Seventeenth Century

5 Under the Spell of Mars: Power, Violence, and Mass Death in Seventeenth-Century Europe / Hartmut Lehmann 93

6 The Experience of Violence during the Thirty Years War: A Look at the Civilian Victims / Otto Ulbricht 97

7 The Atrocities of War in Early Modern Art / Bernd Roeck 129

8 The Experience of Violence and the Expectation of the End of the World in Seventeenth-Century Europe / Markus Meumann 141

Part III Twentieth Century

9 Representations of War in the East, 1941-45: The German Case / Tobias Jersak 163

10 Representations of War in Western Europe, 1939-45 / Pieter Lagrou 175

11 Representations of War on the Eastern Front, 1914-18 / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius 191

12 Representations of War on the Western Front, 1914-18: Some Reflections on Cultural Ambivalence / Jay Winter 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754630420

OCLC:

52798887