"Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern…
Building upon recent developments in memory studies and transnational memory, this book offers a comparative analysis of Yugoslav Holocaust memory and its intersections with other forms of extreme violence, such as the suffering of the non-Jewish South-Slav population during Wor…
"This book shows how amoral communities - places where wartime violence against civilians is both tolerated and justified by the respective authorities - are created when the complementary processes of the exclusion of moderates and the production of borders connect ethnicity or…
This title analyzes the ways in which empire builders interacted with the indigenous populations during colonization in the early modern period.
The early modern period (c. 1500-1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese i…