Introduction: violence and the early modern world - Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, and Peter H. Wilson
Part I: Coherence and fragmentation
1 'None could stand before him in the battle, none ever reigned so wisely as he': the expansion and significance of violence in early modern Africa - Richard Reid
2 Both benevolent and brutal: the two sides of provincial violence in early modern Burma - Michael W. Charney
3 Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century Vietnam - Vu Ð?c Liêm
4 Towards a political economy of conquest: the changing scale of warfare and the making of early colonial South Asia - Manu Sehgal
5 Ravages and depredations: raiding war and globalization in the early modern world - Brian Sandberg
Part II: Restraint and excess
6 Breaking the Pax Hispanica: collective violence in colonial Spanish America - Anthony McFarlane
7 Restraining/encouraging violence: commerce, diplomacy, and brigandage on the steppe routes between the Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, 1470s-1570s - Alexander Osipian
8 Restraining violence on the seas: the Tokugawa, the Zheng maritime network, and the Dutch East India Company - Adam Clulow and Xing Hang
9 'The wrath of God': legitimization and limits of Mughal military violence in early modern South Asia - Pratyay Nath
Part III: Differentiation and identification
10 'Sacrificed to the madness of the bloodthirsty sabre': violence and the Great Turkish War in the work of Romeyn de Hooghe - Michel van Duijnen
11 Atlantic slave systems and violence - Trevor Burnard
12 A 'theatre of bloody carnage': the revolt of Cairo and Revolutionary violence - Joseph Clarke
13 Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern: organic economies, logistics, and violence in the pre-industrial world - Wayne E. Lee
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Index