The first book to present a global, cross-cultural, historical perspective on violence since 1800, its deep social significances and representations.

Introduction Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter; Part I. Race, Religion and Nationalism: 1. Empires and indigenous worlds: violence and the Pacific Ocean, 1760 to 1930s Patricia O'Brien; 2. Religious violence in late Imperial China Thomas David Dubois; 3. Violence, non-violence, the state, and the nation: India, 1858-1958 Kama Maclean and Benjamin Zachariah; 4. Racial violence in North America since the Civil War Jason Morgan Ward; 5. Religion and violence in modern South Asia Mark Juergensmeyer; 6. Violence in the Middle East Hamit Bozarslan; Part II. Intimate and Gendered Violence: 7. A global history of sexual violence Joanna Bourke; 8. Sexual and domestic violence in global perspective Lisa Featherstone; 9. Homicide in global perspective Pieter Siedenburg; 10. Violence and sport, 1800-2000 Emma Griffin; Part III. Warfare, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World: 11. Frontier violence in the British Empire Lyndall Ryan and Amanda Nettelbeck; 12. Genealogies of modern violence, Arendt and imperialism in Africa, 1830-1914 Benjamin Claude Brower; 13. Political and public violence in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey Hans-Lukas Kieser; 14. Violence and the First World War Bruno Cabanes; 15. Violence and the Second World War Jochen Hellbeck; 16. Violence and the Japanese Empire Takashi Yoshida; Part IV. The State, Revolution and Social Change: Introduction; 17. Change and continuity in collective violence in France, 1780-1870 Peter McPhee and Jeremy Teow; 18. The concentration camp Dan Ston; 19. Geographies of genocide: the European Rimlands, 1912-53 Mark Levene; 20. Violence during the Great Leap Forward in Mao's China, 1958-1961 Zhou Xun; 21. Mass murder in Indonesia and its aftermaths Gerry van Klinken; 22. The violence of the Cold War Heonik Kwon; 23. Crime and punishment in modern Africa James P. Daughton; 24. Violence, the state and revolution in Latin America Robert H. Holden; 25. The contradictions of mass violence in Cambodia, 1975-1979 James Tyner; 26. Terrorism in the modern world Randall Law; Part V. Representations and Constructions of Violence: 27. Criminal violence and culture in Europe Clive Emsley; 28. Extreme violence and Western cinema James Kendrick; 29. Representations of violence through the media Jolyon Mitchell; 30. Remembering and forgetting violence in the twentieth century Joy Damousi, Jordana Silverstein and Mary Tomsic.