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Assaulting the past : violence and civilization in historical context / edited by Katherine D. Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--History.
- Violence.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 recognise, as he did, that changes in human behaviour are related to transformations of both social and personality structures. Drawing on a vast range of archival and written records from five countries, th...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Violence and the 'civilizing process'
- pt. II. Violence and social order
- pt. III. Violence and gender
- pt. IV. Violence and the civilized society.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19188-8
- 9786612191886
- 1-4438-0824-5
- OCLC:
- 828303054
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