Violence and Visibility in Modern History [electronic resource] /
Martschukat, Jürgen.editor.
Niedermeier, Silvan.editor.
Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 2 Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo; Part I Visibilities of Crime, Policing, and Punishment; 3 The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections; 4 Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States; 5 The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900
6 Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940-19557 The "Vicarious Play" of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895-1905; 8 Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War; Part II Visibilities of Warfare; 9 Life and Death in Peep Boxes: Bringing the Civil War to the American Home; 10 Images of Violence in Wehrmacht Soldiers' Private Photo Albums
11 Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC's Fictional Miniseries Holocaust12 Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence; 13 Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore's Ford Lynching; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Despite the claims of Steven Pinker and others, violence has remained a historical constant since the Enlightenment, even though its forms and visibility have been radically transformed. Accordingly, the studies gathered here recast debate over violence in modern societies by undermining teleological and reassuring narratives of progress.
World history.
Civilization-History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Military history.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Cultural History.
Modern History.
Social History.
History of Military.
Sociology, general.