Introduction The Massacre and History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables, Illustrations and Maps vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction The Massacre and History xi
6. PART I. MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS
7. Chapter 1 The Origins of Massacres 1
8. Chapter 2 Massacre in the Peloponnesian War 17
9. Chapter 3 ‘The Abominable Quibble’: Alexander’s Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga 27
10. Chapter 4 The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul 38
11. Chapter 5 Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle Ages 50
12. Chapter 6 A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641–1653 63
13. Part II The Colonial Frontier
14. Chapter 7 Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhütten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence 79
15. Chapter 8 Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836–1851 94
16. Chapter 9 Tactics of Nineteenth-Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond 110
17. Chapter 10 A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre 126
18. Chapter 11 When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction 141
19. Part III Contested Narratives: Memory, Atrocity and Massacre
20. Chapter 12 Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 155
21. Chapter 13 Stalin’s Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo 170
22. Chapter 14 The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia 186
23. Chapter 15 Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965–1966 Massacres in Indonesia 199
24. Chapter 16 A Necessary Salve: The ‘Hue Massacre’ in History and Memory 213
25. Chapter 17 A Battle for Perceptions: Revisiting the Cassinga Controversy in Southern Africa 226
26. Part IV The Dynamics of Modern Massacre and Mass Killings
27. Chapter 18 Method in Their Madness: Understanding the Dynamics of the Italian Massacre of Ethiopian Civilians, February–May 1937 243
28. Chapter 19 The Algerian War on French Soil: The Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961 258
29. Chapter 20 Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan 271
30. Select Bibliography 285
31. Notes on Contributors 297
32. Index 303