This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence.
Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon.
Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralized polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression by these ...
The third volume of The Cambridge World History of Violence examines a world in which global empires were consolidated and expanded, and in which civilisations for the first time linked to each other by trans-oceanic contacts and a ...
This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence.
The third volume of The Cambridge World History of Violence examines a world in which global empires were consolidated and expanded, and in which civilisations for the first time linked to each other by trans-oceanic contacts and a ...