Harfleur to Hamburg : five centuries of English and British violence in Europe /
"Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial contexts on other continents. What is often missed, however, is the extent to which the state with i...
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London :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / D. J. B. Trim and Brendan Simms
- Strategy, piety, and chivalry violence and restraint under Henry V in 1415 / Clifford J. Rogers
- Thomas Howard and the character of English violence during the reign of Henry VIII / Neil Murphy
- English atrocities in the reign of Elizabeth I and their context / D. J. B. Trim
- State of emergency the English subjection of early modern Ireland / David Edwards
- Violence in Scotland the British Army and government after Culloden / Murray Pittock
- 'Alas poor Danes!': the bombardment of Copenhagen, 1807 / Brendan Simms
- British-Army violence against civilians in the Peninsular War / Charles Esdaile
- 'You have not had a sufficient number killed and wounded': the Baltic campaigns of the 'Crimean' War, 1854-56 / Andrew Lambert
- The blockade in the First World War / Mary Elisabeth Cox
- Legitimising violence in the British attack on the French fleet at Mers-El-Kébir / Karine Varley
- Operation Gomorrah ruthlessness and the British Air War, 1943 / Richard Overy.