The Cambridge World History of Violence 4 Volume Hardback Set

Dwyer, Phillip

ISBN 10: 1316626881 / ISBN 13: 9781316626887

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Synopsis:

The first collection of its kind to examine violence across different periods of history and regions of the world.

About the Authors: Philip Dwyer is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the editor of Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History (2012) and Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (with Amanda Nettelbeck, 2017). He is also the author of Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799 (2007), which won the Australian National Biography Award in 2008; Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (2013); and more recently Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815–1840 (2018).

Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of numerous books which include Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005, winner of the Ernest Scott Prize); Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840–1940 (Cambridge, 2010) and Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War (Cambridge, 2015). Professor Damousi is currently the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Australian Historical Association, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Cambridge World History of Violence 4 ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: HRD
Condition: New