Fagan Garrett G., Fibiger Linda, Hudson Mark, Trundle Matthew (eds.). The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds

Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 756 p.The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.Garrett G. Fagan was Professor of Ancient History at the Pennsylvania State University. His main research interests lay in the field of Roman history and archaeology, on which he published three monographs, including The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games (Cambridge, 2011). He edited or co-authored three other books, including New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (with Matthew Trundle, 2010).Linda Fibiger is Senior Lecturer in Human Osteology in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is editor (with Nicholas Marquez-Grant) of The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation (2011), and of Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective (with R. Schulting, 2012).Mark Hudson is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany. He is also a Research Associate of the Institut d'Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon. His previous books include Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands (2000), which won the John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies. He has also co-edited Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern (Cambridge, 1996) and Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives (2013).Matthew Trundle is Chair and Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander (2004), and has edited volumes entitled New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (with Garrett Fagan, 2010) and Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae (with Christopher Matthew, 2013).Volume II
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