Most analyses of violence in the different historical periods tend to view the modern era as
significantly less violent than all of its historical predecessors. By focusing on such …

Since the great theories of evolution in the nineteenth century, sociology has been
interested in the question as to whether modernity should be interpreted as a process of …

Over the past two decades of crime historiography, violence has been increasingly
approached as a cultural issue. Undoubtedly, the complexity of attitudes towards violence in …

Abstract [Extract] This four-volume world history is the first collection of its kind to look at
violence across different periods of human history and across many regions of the world. It …

Conclusion In our contemporary society, ferocious cruelty is no longer structurally induced; it
is no longer part of the dominant ceremonial order, although we still find individual cases. In …

If we define and desire modernity as a progressive stage in humanity's history or as an
advance on the part of reason and a retreat on the part of traditions and obscurantism, two …

This book offers an important contribution to the comparative history of interpersonal
violence since the early modern period, a subject of great contemporary and historical …

Given the paucity of evidence available, scholarship in archaeology and the social sciences
is deeply divided over the question, how old is human violence? Some scholars have …

Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically
continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows …

The end of a war is generally expected to be followed by an end to collective violence, as
the term 'post-conflict'that came into general usage in the 1990s signifies. In reality, however …