The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
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Weight: 1330g
Dimensions: 160 x 237mm
Publication Date: 26 Mar 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781107120129
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Garrett G. Fagan was Professor of Ancient History at the Pennsylvania State University. His main research interests lay in the field of Roman history and archaeology on which he published three monographs including The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games (Cambridge 2011). He edited or co-authored three other books including New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (with Matthew Trundle 2010). Linda Fibiger is Senior Lecturer in Human Osteology in the School of History Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is editor (with Nicholas Marquez-Grant) of The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation (2011) and of Sticks Stones and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective (with R. Schulting 2012). Mark Hudson is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Germany. He is also a Research Associate of the Institut d'Asie Orientale ENS de Lyon. His previous books include Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands (2000) which won the John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies. He has also co-edited Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern (Cambridge 1996) and Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives (2013). Matthew Trundle is Chair and Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander (2004) and has edited volumes entitled New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (with Garrett Fagan 2010) and Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae (with Christopher Matthew 2013).