Table of Contents
List of Tables, Illustrations, and Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Massacre and History
Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan
PART I: MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS
Chapter 1. The 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. The 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: The 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: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre
Blanca Tovías 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 Dwyer
Chapter 13. Stalin’s Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo
Claudia Weber
Chapter 14. The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia
François-Xavier Nérard
Chapter 15. Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965-1966 Massacres in Indonesia
Annie Pohlman
Chapter 16. A Necessary Salve: The ‘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. The Algerian War on French Soil : The Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961
Hélène Jaccomard
Chapter 20. Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan
Stephen J. Rockel
Select Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index
