Honour, Violence and Emotions in History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781472519474)

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions.

Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history.

This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.



Author: Carolyn Strange
ISBN-10: 1472519477
ISBN-13: 9781472519474
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d