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Honour, violence and emotions in history / edited by Carolyn Strange, Robert Cribb, and Christopher E. Forth.

Strange, Carolyn, 1959- (editor.). Cribb, R. B., (editor.). Forth, Christopher E., (editor.).

Summary:

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 Sou.

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ISBN: 9781472519481
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Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations
Publisher: London ; Bloomsbury, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Historical perspectives on honour, violence and emotion; 2 The severed head speaks: Death, revenge, moral heroism and martyrdom in sixteenth to seventeenth-century China; 3 From honour to virtue: The shifting social logics of masculinity and honour in early modern Sweden; 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; 5 'Unbridled Passions', honour and status in late eighteenth-century Cape Town. 6 Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony, 1826-18277 Of clubs and whiskers: Young men, honour and violence in the backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1865-1889; 8 Emotion, gender and honour in a fin-de-siècle crime of passion: The case of Marie Bière; 9 Deeper than the death: Chaste suicide, emotions and politics of honour in nineteenth-century Korea; 10 How the duel of honour promoted civility and attenuated violence in Western Europe; Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword; Index.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.