History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present - Softcover

Muchembled, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745647472 ISBN 13: 9780745647470

Verlag: Polity Press, 2011

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vi 377p large paperback, a bright cover, a firm and clean copy, like new

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"A vivid, thoughtful, deeply researched exploration of one of the main problems of human societies and a fascinating reflection on the 'extreme plasticity of civilizations'." Times Higher Education "This is one of Robert Muchembled's best books, a lucid and persuasive combination of broad sweep with vivid detail and of synthesis with original research." Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "In this wide-ranging book, Robert Muchembled, one of France's most talented historians, draws on a lifetime of study to elucidate the history of violence in Europe from the late middle ages to the present. In showing how Western Europe by the twentieth century had achieved the lowest level of interpersonal violence yet known to the world, Muchembled employs modern gender analysis to challenge historians to reconsider many long-held assumptions about the control of violent behaviour in the West." Julius R. Ruff, Marquette University and author of Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

Reseña del editor:

Violence is so much in the news today that we may find it hard to believe that it is less prevalent than it was in the past. But this is exactly what the distinguished historian Robert Muchembled argues in this major new work on the history of violence. He shows that brutality and homicide have been in decline since the thirteenth century. The thesis of a 'civilizing process', of a gradual taming, even sublimation, of violence, seems, therefore, to be well-founded.

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• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0745647472
• ISBN 13: 9780745647470
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384