Theatres Of Violence : : Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History / / ed. by Lyndall Ryan, Philip Dwyer.

• MitwirkendeR: Baines, Gary,; Baynham, Elizabeth,; Bellemore, Jane,; Bosworth, Brian,; Docker, John,; Dwyer, Philip G.,; Finaldi, Giuseppe,; Harper, Rob,; Jaccomard, Hélène,; Jones, Inga,; Laderman, Scott,; Madley, Benjamin,; Marvin, Laurence W.,; Nérard, François-Xavier,; Pohlman, Annie,; Rockel, Stephen J.,; Ryan, Lyndall,; Schlunke, Katrina,; Tovías, Blanca,; Weber, Claudia,
• HerausgeberIn: Dwyer, Philip,; Ryan, Lyndall,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; 2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables, Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The Massacre and History -- PART I. MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS -- Chapter 1 The Origins of Massacres -- Chapter 2 Massacre in the Peloponnesian War -- Chapter 3 ‘The Abominable Quibble’: Alexander’s Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga -- Chapter 4 The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul -- Chapter 5 Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle Ages -- Chapter 6 A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641–1653 -- Part II The Colonial Frontier -- Chapter 7 Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhütten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence -- Chapter 8 Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836–1851 -- Chapter 9 Tactics of Nineteenth-Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond -- Chapter 10 A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre -- Chapter 11 When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction -- Part III Contested Narratives: Memory, Atrocity and Massacre -- Chapter 12 Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars -- Chapter 13 Stalin’s Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo -- Chapter 14 The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia -- Chapter 15 Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965–1966 Massacres in Indonesia -- Chapter 16 A Necessary Salve: The ‘Hue Massacre’ in History and Memory -- Chapter 17 A Battle for Perceptions: Revisiting the Cassinga Controversy in Southern Africa -- 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 -- Chapter 19 The Algerian War on French Soil: The Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961 -- Chapter 20 Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index