Theatres Of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

Theatres Of Violence

Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History

Edited by: Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan

Volume 11 in the series War and Genocide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453006

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About this book

Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between ‘massacre’ and ‘genocide’, the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of ‘Massacre Studies’, dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies.

Author / Editor information

Philip Dwyer is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. His monograph Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769-1799 (2008) won the Australian National Biography Award.

Lyndall Ryan is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the History of Violence, Humanities Research Institute at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her classic text, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981, opened up the field of colonial frontier violence in Australia. Since then she has published widely on settler massacres on the Australian colonial frontier.

Philip Dwyer is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. His monograph Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769-1799 (2008) won the Australian National Biography Award.

Reviews

“Making a distinction between ‘massacre’ and ‘genocide,’ the editors strive to launch a new field of ‘massacre studies,’ focusing on mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. The book should be added to any library collecting in the field of mass violence studies.” · Choice

“Students of world history need to understand that history does not exist in a concrete and established form but rather continues to be shaped by—and to shape, in turn—present prejudices and policies. Theatres of Violence, by tackling a selection of emotionally charged and highly contested events, illustrates that dynamic at work throughout history, and so it proves an important contribution to both the study of violence specifically and to world history in general.” · Middle Ground Journal

“…an admirable and varied collection of 20 chapters on the phenomenon of massacre… The density of the volume is such that this review cannot do full justice to the quality of the contributions.” · European History Quarterly

"...{A] milestone on the path toward a more sophisticated analysis of a key feature of human cruelty…[This volume’s] goal is exploration and inspiration of further research in, and discussion of, the history of massacres…[It] does an excellent job in doing exactly this, and I am sure it will serve for a long time as a major reference book in the broader field of mass violence studies." · Thomas Kühne, Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Clark University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables, Illustrations and Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction The Massacre and History Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PART I. MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS
Chapter 1 The Origins of Massacres John Docker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Massacre in the Peloponnesian War Brian Bosworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 3 ‘The Abominable Quibble’: Alexander’s Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga Elizabeth Baynham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 4 The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul Jane Bellemore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 5 Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle Ages Laurence W. Marvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Chapter 6 A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641–1653 Inga Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part II The Colonial Frontier
Chapter 7 Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhütten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence Rob Harper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 8 Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836–1851 Lyndall Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 9 Tactics of Nineteenth-Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond Benjamin Madley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 10 A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre Blanca Tovías Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 11 When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction Katrina Schlunke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Part III Contested Narratives: Memory, Atrocity and Massacre
Chapter 12 Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Philip G. Dwyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 13 Stalin’s Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo Claudia Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Chapter 14 The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia François-Xavier Nérard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Chapter 15 Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965–1966 Massacres in Indonesia Annie Pohlman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Chapter 16 A Necessary Salve: The ‘Hue Massacre’ in History and Memory Scott Laderman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 17 A Battle for Perceptions: Revisiting the Cassinga Controversy in Southern Africa Gary Baines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Part IV The Dynamics of Modern Massacre and Mass Killings
Chapter 18 Method in Their Madness: Understanding the Dynamics of the Italian Massacre of Ethiopian Civilians, February–May 1937 Giuseppe Finaldi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Chapter 19 The Algerian War on French Soil: The Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961 Hélène Jaccomard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Chapter 20 Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan Stephen J. Rockel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Genocide History

eBook

Published: April 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857453006