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Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword

Carolyn Strange

Carolyn Strange is Graduate Director and Senior Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...In 1688 Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume described violence in the name of honour, particularly the duel, as an absurdity that civilization would conquer over time: ‘All advances towards reason and good sense are slow...

Conclusion: Observations on the Future Store, the Future Map and the Future

Kitty Millet

Kitty Millet is Professor of Holocaust Studies and Comparative Jewish Literatures at San Francisco State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust : A Comparative History of Persecution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Jeremy Adler, ‘Good against Evil?’, in Social Theory after the Holocaust, ed. Robert Fine and Charles Turner (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000). The formulas of persecution and victimization As each section demonstrated...

Conclusion: The Future of The Law of War

Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant is Professor of History and Legal Studies, Bryant University, USA. He is the author of Confronting the “Good Death:” Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945–53 (2005) and Eyewitness to Genocide: Jewish Witnesses, West German Courts, and the “Operation Reinhard” Trials, 1956–1966 (2014). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A World History of War Crimes : From Antiquity to The Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...In the literature on the Law of War, many scholars over the years have portrayed premodern warfare as lacking restraint. On this view, premodern warfare was a carnival of bloodlust, in which stronger armies ravaged the weaker and civilians...

War and Peace in the Early Modern Period

Peter Schröder

Peter Schröder is Professor of the History of Political Thought at University College London, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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...Introduction The perception and discussion of war and peace underwent radical changes in the early modern period because of a wide range of very different reasons. Warfare itself changed dramatically during this period, as did diplomacy...

An Aryan World and the ‘Worldlessness’ of Jews

Kitty Millet

Kitty Millet is Professor of Holocaust Studies and Comparative Jewish Literatures at San Francisco State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust : A Comparative History of Persecution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Wachsmann, KL, p. 258. The ‘exterminatory consciousness’ before 1940 In 1924, in his jail cell, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. The text detailed his ideology and described his unfair incarceration due to the ‘lies of the Jewish press...

Conflict and Accommodation

Elisabeth Belmas

Elisabeth Belmas

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A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment Volume 4

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Cultural History Chapter

...“Regulating sociability and aggression, sport provided an outlet for impulses which could not be expressed elsewhere,” wrote Georges Vigarello (Vigarello 2002: 8). He viewed sport as a “factor in the order and stability” of pre-industrial...

How is the Memory of the Holocaust Transmitted Across Generations?

Daniel H. Magilow

Daniel H. Magilow is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He is the author of The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany (2012) and In Her Father’s Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust (2008) and the co-editor, along with Elizabeth Bridges and Kristin T. Vander Lugt, of Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Culture and Cinema (2012). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Lisa Silverman

Lisa Silverman is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She is the author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (2012), the co-editor, along with Arijit Sen, of Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City (2014) and the co-editor, along with Deborah Holmes, of Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Representations in History : An Introduction

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Book Chapter

...A page from the Hungarian translation of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus (1992) is displayed on a subway train in Budapest on March 4, 2005 to advertise the opening of an exhibition of Spiegelman’s work. Due to its comic...

Money and the Issues of the Age

Clare Rowan

Clare Rowan

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A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity Volume 1

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...For when they had come to supply themselves more from abroad by importing things in which they were deficient and exporting those of which they had a surplus, the employment of money necessarily came to be devised. For the natural...

Conclusion

Benjamin Lieberman

Benjamin Lieberman is Professor at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, USA. His research interests include ethnic cleansing and genocide. He is the author of Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing and the Making of Modern Europe (2006) Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Holocaust and Genocides in Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Book Chapter

...As one of the core areas in the field of genocide studies the history of twentieth-century European genocide offers key insights not only into the patterns of genocide in Europe but also into the broader history of genocide. The study...

Constitutions

Susan Byrne

Susan Byrne

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A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...Some of the research for this article was carried out with the help of two grants, one from the Griswold Research Fund of the Whitney Humanities Center, and another, a Faculty Research Grant from the MacMillan Center for International...