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Violence and Visibility in Modern History

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Jürgen Martschukat

    1. Erfurt University, Germany

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  2. Silvan Niedermeier

    1. Erfurt University, Germany

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

      • Jürgen Martschukat, Silvan Niedermeier
      Pages 1-23

  3. Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo

    1. Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo

      • Colin Dayan
      Pages 25-42

  4. Visibilities of Crime, Policing, and Punishment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections

      • Thomas Weitin
      Pages 45-56

    3. Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States

      • Bruce Dorsey
      Pages 57-72

    4. The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900

      • Martha Hodes
      Pages 73-90

    5. Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940–1955

      • Silvan Niedermeier
      Pages 91-111

    6. The “Vicarious Play” of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895–1905

      • Amy Louise Wood
      Pages 113-135

    7. Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War

      • Michael Wildt
      Pages 137-155

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-305
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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.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Erfurt University, Germany

    Jürgen Martschukat, Silvan Niedermeier

About the editors

Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University, USA Thomas Weitin, University of Konstanz, Germany Bruce Dorsey, Swarthmore College, USA Martha Hodes, New York University, USA Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University, USA Michael Wildt, Humboldt University, Germany Annette Jael Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Petra Bopp, University of Jena, Germany Jan Taubitz, University of Erfurt, Germany Sebastian Jobs, University of Sydney, Australia Dora Apel, Wayne State University, USA

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