This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial soldiers and Japanese magistrates -- .


Format Inbunden Omfång 320 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Manchester University Press Utgivningsdatum 2020-09-01 ISBN 9781526140609