Joseph Canning, Hartmut Lehmann and Jay Winters, (Eds.), Power, Violence And Mass Death In Pre-modern and Modern Times

This collection of essays is based on papers from the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Oslo in the year 2000. The leading principle of the contributions is the assumption that the fourteenth, seventeenth and twentieth centuries show some important similarities, especially in the areas mentioned in the book’s title. The editors identify these three centuries as periods of intensified social unrest, social instability and migration due to the occurrence of extreme and uncommon v..