This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in
Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term …

Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were
widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate …

While there have been controversial attempts to link conclusions from sociobiological
studies of animal populations to humans, few behavioral scientists or anthropologists have …

Sociological explanations of group conflict usually presuppose that the various factors that
breed hostility between collectivities also generate internal solidarity. Outside of the protest …

The European Middle Ages have long attracted popular interest as an era characterised by
violence, whether a reflection of societal brutality and lawlessness or part of a romantic …

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound
together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia …

Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his
inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that …

This book examines the relationship between legal tradition and national identity to offer a
critical and historical perspective on the study of criminal law. It develops a radically different …

This new approach to Highland history before the Clearances draws attention to little-
studied yet important economic and social processes within the Highland clan system and …

Discussions of violence observe that dispute resolution in stateless societies often involves
vengeance and collective responsibility for harm. These patterns are typically attributed to a …