Theatres of violence: massacre, mass killing and atrocity throughout history

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List of Tables, Illustrations, and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction:The Massacre and History Philip G. Dwyerand Lyndall Ryan PART I: MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS Chapter 1. Origins of Massacres John Docker Chapter 2. Massacres in the Peloponnesian War Brian Bosworth Chapter 3. The Abominable Quibble: Alexander's Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga Elizabeth Baynham Chapter 4. Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul Jane Bellemore Chapter 5. Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle-Ages Laurence W. Marvin Chapter 6. A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641 - 53 Inga Jones PART II: THE COLONIAL FRONTIER Chapter 7. Looking the Other Way: Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence Rob Harper Chapter 8. Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836-1851 Lyndall Ryan Chapter 9. Tactics of Nineteenth Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond Benjamin Madley Chapter 10. A Blueprint for Massacre: United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre Blanca Tovias de Plaisted Chapter 11. When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction Katrina Schlunke PART III: CONTESTED NARRATIVES: MEMORY, ATROCITY AND MASSACRE Chapter 12. Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Philip G. Dwyer Chapter 13. Stalin's Trap: Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo Claudia Weber Chapter 14. Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia Francois-Xavier Nerard Chapter 15. Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965-1966 Massacres in Indonesia Annie Pohlman Chapter 16. A Necessary Salve: 'Hue Massacre' in History and Memory Scott Laderman Chapter 17. A Battle for Perceptions: Revisiting the Cassinga Controversy in Southern Africa Gary Baines PART IV: THE DYNAMICS OF MODERN MASSACRE AND MASS KILLING Chapter 18. Method in their Madness: Understanding the Dynamics of the Italian Massacre of Ethiopian Civilians, February-May 1937 Giuseppe Finaldi Chapter 19. Algerian War on French Soil : Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961 Helene Jaccomard Chapter 20. Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan Stephen J. Rockel Select Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index