00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004730 20221018090649 0010-0520004730 221018################|##########|#eng## 9780387745077 eng 303.609 4 303.609 4 VIO Violence in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Violence in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Edited by Sophie Body-Gendrot New York : Springer, 2008 x, 256p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.251 - 256 This book is organized in five parts, examining contested definitions, longterm trends, contemporary trends, gendering violent practices and politics, war and violence, all contributing to elaborate historical and contemporary perspectives on violence in Europe. Part one, two scholars agree that common definitions of violence are needed to work along the same parameters. Research on violence and three contributions constitute Part two. The continuation of this theme is found in part three. Gendering violent practices are the object of part four. The major themes of part five are politics, war and violence. Taking the sociocultural long view, it analyzes the prevalence and role of violence - from street crime to terrorist attack, homicide to genocide - in the evolution of human and national behavior. It examining centuries of violent phenomena, from the culltural logic of the Middle Ages to Today's soccer riots and security alerts. Violence - Europe Pieter Spierenburg 10054/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10055/MKRI-P/XI-2008