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Violence and visibility in modern history

edited by Jürgen Martschukat and Silvan Niedermeier
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E-Book
Edition:
First edition
Publication:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives / Silvan Niedermeier
  • 2. Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo / Colin Dayan
  • pt. I Visibilities of Crime, Policing, and Punishment
  • 3. The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections / Thomas Weitin
  • 4. Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States / Bruce Dorsey
  • 5. The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900 / Martha Hodes
  • 6. Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940-1955 / Silvan Niedermeier
  • 7. The "Vicarious Play" of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895-1905 / Amy Louise Wood
  • 8. Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War / Michael Wildt
  • pt. II Visibilities of Warfare
  • 9. Life and Death in Peep Boxes: Bringing the Civil War to the American Home / Annette Jael Lehmann
  • 10. Images of Violence in Wehrmacht Soldiers' Private Photo Albums / Petra Bopp
  • 11. Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC's Fictional Miniseries Holocaust / Jan Taubitz
  • 12. Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence / Sebastian Jobs
  • 13. Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore's Ford Lynching / Dora Apel.
Contributors:
Martschukat, Jürgen
Niedermeier, Silvan
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Violence — History
Violence — United States — History
Violence — Germany — History
State crimes — United States — History
State crimes — Germany — History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-288) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
HM1116 .V527 2013eb
ISBNs:
1137378697 (electronic bk.)
9781137378699 (electronic bk.)
1137378689 [Invalid]
9781137378682 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
867766922
Other Control Numbers:
EBC1588953 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11696866