The Cambridge World History of Violence

Description

In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of popular resistance, and the manifestations of ethnic and racial unrest. It also provided the raw material for profound meditations on humanity and for examining our relationship to the divine and natural worlds. The third volume of The Cambridge World History of Violence examines a world in which global empires were consolidated and expanded, and in which civilisations for the first time linked to each other by trans-oceanic contacts and a sophisticated world trade system.

Robert Antony is Distinguished Professor and Senior Researcher in Guangzhou University's Canton's Thirteen Hongs Research Centre. His research focuses on China's social, legal, and maritime history, and his publications include Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003), Pirates in the Age of Sail (2007), and Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China (2016). Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He is a three-time winner of the Nancy Roelker Prize awarded by the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society. In 2009 he won the Russell J. Major Prize from the American Historical Association for his third book, Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Caroline Dodds Pennock is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. Her first book, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Society (2008) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize. She is currently working on the neglected history of Native Americans in Europe and is involved in a major international project, based at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, on 'Human Sacrifice and Value: The Limits of Sacred Violence'.