Honour, Violence and Emotions in History
Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world,...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2014
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781474210751, 1474210759, 9781472519481, 1472519485, 9781472519467, 1472519469, 9781472519474, 1472519477 |
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Table of Contents:
- Historical perspectives on honour, violence and emotion - The severed head speaks: Death, revenge, moral heroism and martyrdom in sixteenth to seventeenth-century China - From honour to virtue: The shifting social logics of masculinity and honour in early modern Sweden - ‘For the Shame of the World, and Fear of Her Mother’s Anger’: Emotion and child murder in England and Scotland in the long eighteenth century - ‘Unbridled Passions’, honour and status in late eighteenth-century Cape Town - Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826–1827 - Of clubs and whiskers: Young men, honour and violence in the backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1865–1889 - Emotion, gender and honour in a fin-de-siècle crime of passion: The case of Marie Bière - Deeper than the death: Chaste suicide, emotions and politics of honour in nineteenth-century Korea - How the duel of honour promoted civility and attenuated violence in Western Europe - Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword
- Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Historical perspectives on honour, violence and emotion -- 2. The severed head speaks: Death, revenge, moral heroism and martyrdom in sixteenth to seventeenth-century China -- 3. From honour to virtue: The shifting social logics of masculinity and honour in early modern Sweden -- 4. 'For the Shame of the World, and Fear of Her Mother's Anger': Emotion and child murder in England and Scotland in the long eighteenth century -- 5. 'Unbridled Passions', honour and status in late eighteenth-century Cape Town -- 6. Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826-1827 -- 7. Of clubs and whiskers: Young men, honour and violence in the backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1865-1889 -- 8. Emotion, gender and honour in a fin-de-siècle crime of passion: The case of Marie Bière -- 9. Deeper than the death: Chaste suicide, emotions and politics of honour in nineteenth-century Korea -- 10. How the duel of honour promoted civility and attenuated violence in Western Europe -- Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword -- Index -- Imprint