The Cambridge World History of Violence 4 Volume Hardback Set

Description

This four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world. It capitalises on the growing scholarly interest in the history of violence, which is emerging as one of the key intellectual issues of our time. The volumes take into account the latest scholarship in the field and comprises the work of nearly 140 scholars, who have contributed substantial chapters to provide an authoritative treatment of violence from a multiplicity of perspectives. The collection thus offers the reader a wide-ranging thematic treatment of the historical contexts of different types of violence, as well as a compendium of experience shared by peoples across time.

Philip Dwyer is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the editor of Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History (2012) and Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (with Amanda Nettelbeck, 2017). He is also the author of Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769-1799 (2007), which won the Australian National Biography Award in 2008; Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (2013); and more recently Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815-1840 (2018). Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of numerous books which include Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005, winner of the Ernest Scott Prize); Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (Cambridge, 2010) and Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War (Cambridge, 2015). Professor Damousi is currently the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Australian Historical Association, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

'It will serve as the first port of call for anyone interested in the manifold manifestations of violence in history, whether for accessible and eye-opening surveys or for up-to-date bibliography to support further investigation.' Walter Scheidel, H-Net Review