Theatres of violence : massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history /: massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history. (2015)
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- Title:
- Theatres of violence : massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history /: massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Theatres of violence : massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Philip G. Dwyer & Lyndall Ryan.
- Editors:
- Dwyer, Philip G
Ryan, Lyndall, 1943- - Contents:
- List of Tables, Illustrations, and Maps; Acknowledgements <a href="/downloads/intros/DwyerTheatres_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction: The Massacre and History; Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan PART I: MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS Chapter 1. The Origins of Massacres; John Docker Chapter 2. Massacres in the Peloponnesian War; Brian Bosworth Chapter 3. "The Abominable Quibble" : Alexander's Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga; Elizabeth Baynham Chapter 4. The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul ; Jane Bellemore Chapter 5. Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle-Ages; Laurence W. Marvin Chapter 6. A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641&ndash;53; Inga Jones PART II: THE COLONIAL FRONTIER Chapter 7. Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence; Rob Harper Chapter 8. Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836-1851 ; Lyndall Ryan Chapter 9. Tactics of Nineteenth Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond; Benjamin Madley Chapter 10. A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre; Blanca Tovías de Plaisted Chapter 11. When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction; Katrina Schlunke PART III:List of Tables, Illustrations, and Maps; Acknowledgements <a href="/downloads/intros/DwyerTheatres_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction: The Massacre and History; Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan PART I: MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS Chapter 1. The Origins of Massacres; John Docker Chapter 2. Massacres in the Peloponnesian War; Brian Bosworth Chapter 3. "The Abominable Quibble" : Alexander's Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga; Elizabeth Baynham Chapter 4. The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul ; Jane Bellemore Chapter 5. Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle-Ages; Laurence W. Marvin Chapter 6. A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641&ndash;53; Inga Jones PART II: THE COLONIAL FRONTIER Chapter 7. Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence; Rob Harper Chapter 8. Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836-1851 ; Lyndall Ryan Chapter 9. Tactics of Nineteenth Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond; Benjamin Madley Chapter 10. A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre; Blanca Tovías de Plaisted Chapter 11. When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction; Katrina Schlunke PART III: CONTESTED NARRATIVES: MEMORY, ATROCITY AND MASSACRE Chapter 12. Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; Philip G. Dwyer Chapter 13. Stalin's Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo; Claudia Weber Chapter 14. The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia; François-Xavier Nérard Chapter 15. Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965-1966 Massacres in Indonesia; Annie Pohlman Chapter 16. A Necessary Salve: The 'Hue Massacre' in History and Memory; Scott Laderman Chapter 17. A Battle for Perceptions: Revisiting the Cassinga Controversy in Southern Africa; Gary Baines PART IV: THE DYNAMICS OF MODERN MASSACRE AND MASS KILLING Chapter 18. Method in their Madness: Understanding the Dynamics of the Italian Massacre of Ethiopian Civilians, February-May 1937; Giuseppe Finaldi Chapter 19. The Algerian War on French Soil : The Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961; Hélène Jaccomard Chapter 20. Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan; Stephen J. Rockel Select Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 303.609
Massacres -- History
Mass murder -- History
Atrocities -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780857453006
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