The Cambridge World History of Violence

About

Robert Antony is Distinguished Professor and Senior Researcher in Guangzhou University's Canton's Thirteen Hongs Research Centre. His research focuses on China's social legal and maritime history and his publications include Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003) Pirates in the Age of Sail (2007) and Unruly People: Crime Community and State in Late Imperial South China (2016). Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He is a three-time winner of the Nancy Roelker Prize awarded by the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society. In 2009 he won the Russell J. Major Prize from the American Historical Association for his third book Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Caroline Dodds Pennock is Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. Her first book Bonds of Blood: Gender Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Society (2008) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize. She is currently working on the neglected history of Native Americans in Europe and is involved in a major international project based at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo on 'Human Sacrifice and Value: The Limits of Sacred Violence'.