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100 1 $aMuchembled, Robert,$d1944-
240 10 $aHistoire da la violence.$lEnglish
245 12 $aA history of violence :$bfrom the end of the Middle Ages to the present /$cRobert Muchembled translated by Jean Birrell.
260 $aCambridge :$bPolity,$cc2012.
300 $avi, 377 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aFirst published in French as Une histoire da la violence, 2008.
500 $aTranslated from the French.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 339-360) and index.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: ch. 1 What is violence? -- Is violence innate? -- Violence and manliness -- Semen and blood: a history of honour -- ch. 2 Violence: seven centuries of spectacular decline -- The reliability of the crime figures -- Seven centuries of decline -- The `making' of young men -- ch. 3 The youth festivals of violence (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries) -- A culture of violence -- Violent festivities and brutal games -- Youth violence -- ch. 4 The urban peace at the end of the Middle Ages -- The pacificatory towns -- Controlling the young -- Violence costs dear -- ch. 5 Cain and Medea: homicide and the construction of sexed genders (1500--1650) -- A judicial revolution -- In pursuit of the ungrateful son: the spread of the blood taboo -- Medea, the guilty mother -- ch. 6 The noble duel and popular revolt: the metamorphoses of violence -- The duel, a French exception -- Noble youths sharpen their swords -- Popular violence and the frustrations of youth --
505 0 $aContents note continued: ch. 7 Violence tamed (1650--1960) -- Murder is forbidden -- The civilizing town -- Violence and changing concepts of honour in the countryside -- ch. 8 Mortal thrills and crime fiction (sixteenth to twentieth centuries) -- The devil, assuredly: the birth of crime fiction -- From bloodthirsty murderer to well-loved bandit -- Blood and ink -- ch. 9 The return of the gangs: contemporary adolescence and violence -- Death in paradise -- Juvenile delinquency -- `Rebel without a cause', or `eternal recurrence'.
650 0 $aViolence$xHistory$zEurope.
700 1 $aBirrell, Jean.
765 0 $tUne histoire de la violence$dEditions du Seuil, 2008
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