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· 제목 : A History of Violence : From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present (Paperback)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 역사 > 사회사
· ISBN : 9780745647470
· 쪽수 : 388쪽
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 역사 > 사회사
· ISBN : 9780745647470
· 쪽수 : 388쪽
목차
- Chapter 1. What is violence?
- Is violence innate?
- Violence and manliness
- Semen and blood: a history of honour
- Chapter 2. Violence: seven centuries of spectacular decline
- The reliability of the crime figures
- Seven centuries of decline
- The 'making' of young men
- Chapter 3. The youth festivals of violence (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries)
- A culture of violence
- Violent festivities and brutal games
- Youth violence
- Chapter 4. The urban peace at the end of the Middle Ages
- The pacificatory towns
- Controlling the young
- Violence costs dear
- Chapter 5. Cain and Medea. Homicide and the construction of sexed genders (1500-1650)
- A judicial revolution
- In pursuit of the ungrateful son: the spread of the blood taboo
- Medea, the guilty mother
- Chapter 6. The noble duel and popular revolt. The metamorphoses of violence
- The duel, a French exception
- Noble youths sharpen their swords
- Popular violence and the frustrations of youth
- Chapter 7. Violence tamed (1650-1960)
- Murder forbidden
- The civilizing town
- Violence and changing concepts of honour in the countryside
- Chapter 8. Mortal thrills and crime fiction (sixteenth to twentieth centuries)
- The devil, assuredly & The birth of the crime fiction
- From blood-thirsty murderer to well-loved bandit
- Blood and ink
- Chapter 9. The return of the gangs. Contemporary adolescence and violence
- Death in paradise
- Juvenile delinquency
- 'Rebel without a cause', or 'eternal recurrence'
- Is the end of violence possible?
