Power, violence and mass death in pre-modern and modern times. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Joseph Canning, Hartmut Lehmann, Jay Winter.
• Other Names: Canning, Joseph, 1944-; Lehmann, Hartmut, 1936-; Winter, J. M
• Contents: Introduction: the 14th, the 17th and the 20th centuries as centuries of violence and mass death / Hartmut Lehmann -- The crisis of the 14th century / Joseph Canning -- Famine and popular resistance: Northern Europe, 1315-22 / William Chester Jordan -- The Black Death: the end of a paradigm / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. -- War in 14th-century Europe / A.D. Carr -- Under the spell of Mars: power, violence, and mass death in 17th-century Europe / Hartmut Lehmann -- The experience of violence during the Thirty Years War: a look at the civilian victims / Otto Ulbricht -- The atrocities of war in early modern art / Bernd Roeck -- The experience of violence and the expectation of the end of the world in 17th-century Europe / Markus Meumann -- Representations of war in the East, 1941-45: the German case / Tobias Jersak -- Representations of war in Western Europe, 1939-45 / Pieter Lagrou -- Representations of war on the Eastern Front, 1914-18 / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius -- Representations of war on the Western Front, 1914-18: some reflections on cultural ambivalence / Jay Winter.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (232 pages)
• Subjects: 303.6/094; Violence -- Europe -- History; Violent crimes -- Europe -- History; Genocide -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; War; Famines -- Europe -- History; Social classes -- Europe -- History; Famines; Genocide; Social classes; Violence; Violent crimes; War; Geweld; Genocide; Europe; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351909495; 1351909495
• 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.