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, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history.
This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.
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A collection of 13 original essays that explore the historical interplay of honour, violence and emotion.
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1 Historical perspectives on honour, violence and emotion |
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2 The severed head speaks: Death, revenge, moral heroism and martyrdom in sixteenth to seventeenth-century China |
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3 From honour to virtue: The shifting social logics of masculinity and honour in early modern Sweden |
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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 |
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5 `Unbridled Passions', honour and status in late eighteenth-century Cape Town |
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6 Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826--1827 |
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7 Of clubs and whiskers: Young men, honour and violence in the backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1865--1889 |
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8 Emotion, gender and honour in a fin-de-siecle crime of passion: The case of Marie Biere |
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9 Deeper than the death: Chaste suicide, emotions and politics of honour in nineteenth-century Korea |
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10 How the duel of honour promoted civility and attenuated violence in Western Europe |
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Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword |
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Carolyn Strange is Graduate Director and Senior Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Robert Cribb is Professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Christopher E. Forth is Professor of History and holds the Howard Chair of Humanities & Western Civilization at the University of Kansas, USA.
