Theatres Of Violence
Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History
Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between 'massacre' and 'genocide', the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of 'Massacre Studies', dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the…
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Weitere Autoren: Ryan, Lyndall (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-85745-300-6
- EAN: 9780857453006
- Produktnummer: 20453360
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'053 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 11
Über den Autor
Lyndall Ryan is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the History of Violence, Humanities Research Institute at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her classic text, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981, opened up the field of colonial frontier violence in Australia. Since then she has published widely on settler massacres on the Australian colonial frontier.
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