Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times

by Joseph Canning and Hartmut Lehmann

The fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries in European history were marked by exceptionally intense experiences of power, violence and mass death. Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times undertakes the ambitious and entirely new task of analyzing, through comparison, the importance of power, violence and mass death in these centuries. Death and the excesses of power were characteristics of the twentieth century, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754630420
• ISBN13: 9780754630425
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages