The Cambridge World History of Violence

Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107156386
• ISBN13: 9781107156388
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 722 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"