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Violence and Punishment - Civilizing the Body Through Time

Name: Violence and Punishment - Civilizing the Body Through Time
Brand: Polity Press
SKU: 9780745653488
Price: 323.63 PLN
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Autor: Pieter Spierenburg

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Wydawca: Polity Press

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This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Pieter Spierenburg

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2012

strony

248

EAN

9780745653488

ISBN

0745653480

Enbook ID

04908861

Wydawca

Polity Press

Waga

494

Wymiary

166 x 234 x 19

Pełny opis

This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected. Taking the decline of violence and the transformation of punishment as its guiding themes, the book highlights key dynamics of historical and social change, and charts how a refinement and civilizing of manners, and new forms of celebration and festival, accompanied the decline of violence. Pieter Spierenburg, a leading figure in historical criminology, skillfully extends his view over three continents, back to the middle ages and even beyond to the Stone Age. Ranging along the way from murder to etiquette, from social control to popular culture, from religion to death, and from honor to prisons, every chapter creatively uses the theories of Norbert Elias, while also engaging with the work of Foucault and Durkheim. The scope and rigor of the analysis will strongly interest scholars of criminology, history, and sociology, while the accessible style and the intriguing stories on which the book builds will appeal to anyone interested in the history of violence and punishment in civilization.