Julius R. Ruff

Violence in Early Modern Europe 1500 1800

Herausgeber: Beik, William; Blanning, T. C. W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A survey of violence in western Europe from the Reformation to the French Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780521591195
• ISBN-10: 0521591198
• Artikelnr.: 25147201

Autorenporträt

Julius Ruff is Associate Professor of History at Marquette University. He is the author of Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France (1984) and co-author of Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence, 4th edition (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the problem of violence in early modern Europe
1. Representations of violence
2. States, arms and armies
3. Justice
4. The discourse of interpersonal violence
5. Ritual group violence
6. Popular protest
7. Organised crime
Conclusion
Index.