Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

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Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472519477
• ISBN13: 9781472519474
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"