History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its afte...(展开全部)

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath. On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its afte...(展开全部)

By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations, legitimations, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodolog...(展开全部)

本卷主编简介： 安乐博（Robert Antony），山东大学历史文化学院荣誉教授。研究方向为中国社会史、法律史和海洋史。著有《海上风云：南中国海的海盗及其不法活动》（2003年）、《扬帆年代的海盗》（2007年）、《法外之徒：帝制晚期华南的罪行、社群与政府》（2016年）。 斯图尔特·卡罗尔（Stuart Carroll），约克大学早期近代史教授，曾三次获得16世纪研究学会颁发的南希·罗科奖，2009年凭《殉教者与杀人犯：吉斯家族与欧洲的形成》获美国历史学会颁发的J.拉塞尔·梅杰奖。 卡罗琳·多兹·彭诺克（Caroline Dodds Pennock），谢菲尔德大学国际史高级讲师。处女作《血缘：阿兹特克文化中的性别、生命周期与牺牲》（2008年首版，2011年精装版）获皇家历史学会颁发的格莱斯顿奖。目前主要研究被遮蔽的旅欧美洲土著人的历史，同时参与...(展开全部)

本卷主编简介： 安乐博（Robert Antony），山东大学历史文化学院荣誉教授。研究方向为中国社会史、法律史和海洋史。著有《海上风云：南中国海的海盗及其不法活动》（2003年）、《扬帆年代的海盗》（2007年）、《法外之徒：帝制晚期华南的罪行、社群与政府》（2016年）。 斯图尔特·卡罗尔（Stuart Carroll），约克大学早期近代史教授，曾三次获得16世纪研究学会颁发的南希·罗科奖，2009年凭《殉教者与杀人犯：吉斯家族与欧洲的形成》获美国历史学会颁发的J.拉塞尔·梅杰奖。 卡罗琳·多兹·彭诺克（Caroline Dodds Pennock），谢菲尔德大学国际史高级讲师。处女作《血缘：阿兹特克文化中的性别、生命周期与牺牲》（2008年首版，2011年精装版）获皇家历史学会颁发的格莱斯顿奖。目前主要研究被遮蔽的旅欧美洲土著人的历史，同时参与...(展开全部)

The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.--from The Archeology of ViolenceAnthropologist and ethnogra...(展开全部)

Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons. But Rawbone’s plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-American border and in the hands of the Bureau of Inves...(展开全部)

Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons, an easy sell to those financing a bloodletting. But Rawbone’s plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-America...(展开全部)

Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities thro...(展开全部)