Power, Violence and Mass Death in Pre-Modern and Modern Times

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Contents: Introduction: The 14th, the 17th and the 20th centuries as centuries of violence and mass death, Hartmut Lehmann Part I Fourteenth Century: The crisis of the 14th century, Joseph Canning Famine and popular resistance: Northern Europe, 1315-22, William Chester Jordan The Black Death: the end of a paradigm, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. War in 14th-century Europe, A.D. Carr. Part II Seventeenth Century: Under the spell of Mars: Power, violence, and mass death in 17th-century Europe, Hartmut Lehmann The experience of violence during the Thirty Years War: a look at the civilian victims, Otto Ulbricht The atrocities of war in early modern art, Bernd Roeck The experience of violence and the expectation of the end of the world in 17th-century Europe, Markus Meumann Part III Twentieth Century: Representations of war in the East, 1941-45: the German case, Tobias Jersak Representations of war in Western Europe, 1939-45, Pieter Lagrou Representations of war on the Eastern Front, 1914-18, Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius Representations of war on the Western Front, 1914-18: some reflections on cultural ambivalence, Jay Winter Index.

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