Assaulting the past : violence and civilization in historical context /: violence and civilization in historical context. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Katherine D. Watson.
• Editors: Watson, Katherine D
• Contents: Violence and the "civilizing process." Locating violence : the spatial production and construction of physical aggression / J. Carter Wood -- Cruel inflictions and the claims of humanity in early nineteenth-century England / Randall McGowen -- Blasphemy and the anti-civilizing process / David Nash -- The emergence and breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process / Steve Hall -- Violence and social order. Violence, social order, the state and the absence of "regulation" in working-class communities in eighteenth-century England / Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton -- Settling their differences : the nature of assault and its prosecution in the city of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Drew Gray -- Violence and disorder, 1880-1914 : similar trends, similar offences and similar explanations? / Barry Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall -- Violence and gender. Earth women and eagle warriors : revealing Aztec gender roles through ritual violence / Caroline Dodds -- Spiralling out of control? : female violence in eighteenth-century London and Mexico / Jennine Hurl-Eamon and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera -- "The lady-killers" : homicidal women in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- Violence and the civilized society. "Do you want to pick a fight out of me, or what do you want?" : homicide and personal animosity in pre-famine and famine Ireland / Richard McMahon -- Insanity and the "civilizing process" : violence, the insane and asylums in the nineteenth century / Cathy Smith -- "A state of personal danger" : domestic violence in England, 1903-1922 / Gail Savage -- Serial homicide and "civilization" / Katherine D. Watson.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Subjects: 303.609; Violence in society; Violence -- History; Violence -- Social aspects; Human behavior; Human remains (Archaeology); Rites and ceremonies; Violence -- History; Wounds and injuries -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Human behavior; Violence; Violence -- Social aspects; Social & cultural history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443808248; 1443808245
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.