Assaulting the Past : Violence and Civilization in Historical Context
ISBN: 9781443808248
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Social Science;

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 importance. Its overarching theme is Norbert EliasOCOs theory of the civilizing process, and the chapters in the book recognise, as he did, that changes in human behaviour are related to transformations of both social and personality structures. Drawing on a vast range of archival and written records from five countries, th..."


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