A global history of early modern violence
/ edited by Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, and Peter H. Wilson
- 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : violence and the early modern world Part I. Coherence and fragmentation ‘None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he’: the expansion and significance of violence in early modern Africa Both benevolent and brutal: the two sides of provincial violence in early modern Burma Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam Towards a political economy of conquest: the changing scale of warfare and the making of early colonial South Asia Ravages and depredations: raiding war and globalization in the early modern world Part II. Restraint and excess Breaking the Pax Hispanica : collective violence in colonial Spanish America Restraining/encouraging violence : commerce, diplomacy, and brigandage on the steppe routes between the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, 1470s–1570s Restraining violence on the seas : the Tokugawa, the Zheng maritime network, and the Dutch East India Company ‘The wrath of God’ : legitimization and limits of Mughal military violence in early modern South Asia Part III. Differentiation and identification ‘Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre’ : violence and the Great Turkish War in the work of Romeyn de Hooghe Atlantic slave systems and violence A ‘theatre of bloody carnage’ : the revolt of Cairo and Revolutionary violence Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern : organic economies, logistics, and violence in the pre-industrial world