Violence in Europe Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
SOFTCOVER EDITION Has violence changed over the centuries? Has it always held the same meanings for us? Will it always be a given in society? Taking the sociocultural long view, Violence in Europe analyzes the prevalence and role of violence—from street c
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Sophie Body-Gendrot • Pieter Spierenburg Editors
Violence in Europe Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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Editors Sophie Body-Gendrot University of Sorbonne, Paris, France
Pieter Spierenburg Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN: 978-0-387-09704-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008933562
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Acknowledgments
This collection is the principal result of a series of seminars, directed by the editors, and devoted to the confrontation between historical and contemporary scholarship dealing with violence. Meetings were held in Ferrara (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004), Rotterdam (2005) and Paris (2005). The series was sponsored by the Posthumus Institute with funds obtained from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The seminars were part of the program of the Groupe Europeen de recherches sur les Normativites (GERN), which co-sponsored them. The editors also are grateful to the late Mario Sbriccoli of the University of Macerata for co-organizing the meeting in Ferrara and providing additional funds to Xavier Rousseaux of the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Center for Law & Justice History) and to the CEGES/SOMA of Belgium for doing the same for the meeting in Brussels.
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Contents
Introduction Sophie Body-Gendrot
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Part I: Contested Definitions Violence: Reflections About a Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pieter Spierenburg
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Violence as an Essentially Contested Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Willem de Haan
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Part II: Long-Term Trends Homicide in Scandinavia: Long-Term Trends and Their Interpretations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dag Lindstrom
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Violence in France's Past: An Anthropological Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francois Ploux
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The Fall and Rise of Homicide in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian O'Donnell
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Part III: Contemporary Trends Violence in Present-Day France: Data and Sociological Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Philippe Robert
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From Old Threats to Enigmatic Enemies: The Evolution of Europe
