Robert Cribb Knihy

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.

This bilingual compilation of essays by various well-known experts on Indonesia provides a broad overview on the impact of selected events of Indonesia's past on its present. The contributors derive from diverse disciplines and are all linked by their common empathy for as well as their awareness of changes in Indonesia. Whatever historical event the contributors concentrate on in particular, they all emphasise that present-day Indonesia can only be understood comprehensively while bearing in mind its exciting past.