Table Of ContentEDITEBDY E RICCAH ARTERS
MARIHEO ULLEMARAEN,D
PETEHR. W ILSON
A GLOBAL
HISTORof Y
EARLMYO DERN
VIOLENCE
A global history of early
modern violence
A global history of early
modern violence
Edited by
Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare,
and Peter H. Wilson
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Contents
List of figures, maps, and tables vii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction: violence and the early modern world – Erica Charters,
Marie Houllemare, and Peter H. Wilson 1
Part I: Coherence and fragmentation 17
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 19
2 Both benevolent and brutal: the two sides of provincial violence in early
modern Burma – Michael W. Charney 37
3 Village rebellion and social violence in early nineteenth-century
Vietnam – Vũ Đức Liêm 52
4 Towards a political economy of conquest: the changing scale of warfare
and the making of early colonial South Asia – Manu Sehgal 71
5 Ravages and depredations: raiding war and globalization in the early
modern world – Brian Sandberg 88
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Part II: Restraint and excess 103
6 Breaking the Pax Hispanica: collective violence in colonial Spanish
America – Anthony McFarlane 105
7 Restraining/encouraging violence: commerce, diplomacy, and
brigandage on the steppe routes between the Ottoman Empire,
Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, 1470s–1570s – Alexander Osipian 124
8 Restraining violence on the seas: the Tokugawa, the Zheng maritime
network, and the Dutch East India Company – Adam Clulow and
Xing Hang 142
9 ‘The wrath of God’: legitimization and limits of Mughal military
violence in early modern South Asia – Pratyay Nath 161
Part III: Differentiation and identification 177
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 179
11 Atlantic slave systems and violence – Trevor Burnard 201
12 A ‘theatre of bloody carnage’: the revolt of Cairo and Revolutionary
violence – Joseph Clarke 218
13 Conquer, extract, and perhaps govern: organic economies, logistics,
and violence in the pre-industrial world – Wayne E. Lee 235
Select bibliography 261
Index 291
List of figures, maps, and tables
Figures
10.1 News print on the capture of Belgrade by the Holy League in 1688.
Romeyn de Hooghe, Belgrado met syn slot en voor-steden
stormenderhand verovert door de keyserlyke machten. Den 6 sept: 1688.
1688. 46.6 cm × 58.1 cm. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.735. 185
10.2 Detail of news print on the fall of Belgrade. Romeyn de Hooghe,
Belgrado met syn slot en voor-steden stormenderhand verovert door de
keyserlyke machten. Den 6 sept: 1688. 1688. 46.6 cm × 58.1 cm.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.735. 186
10.3 Detail of news print on the capture of Buda by the Holy League in
1686. Romeyn de Hooghe, Belegering der sterke stad Buda of Offen, door
de Keyserlycke en geallieerde machten. 1686. 1686. Noord-Hollands Archief,
collection Voorhelm Schneevoogt, NL-HlmNHA_53009097_01
NL-HlmNHA_53009097_02. 188
10.4 Detail of news print on the fall of Belgrade. Romeyn de Hooghe,
Belgrado met syn slot en voor-steden stormenderhand verovert door de
keyserlyke machten. Den 6 sept: 1688. 1688. 46.6 cm × 58.1 cm.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam RP-P-OB-67.735. 188
10.5 Fictive triumphal entry of Leopold I to celebrate the Holy League’s
capture of Buda. Romeyn de Hooghe, Divo et invictissimo Leopoldo
I […]. 1686–87. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam RP-P-1930–231. 190
10.6 Satirical print on the events of the year 1687. Romeyn de Hooghe,
Koning-Spel Courant op ‘t Jaer 1687, Amsterdam 1687–88. Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam RP-P-OB-76.963. 192
viii List of figures, maps, and tables
10.7 Detail of Figure 10.6. Dunnewald impales an Ottoman soldier on his
spear. 193
10.8 Detail of Figure 10.6. On the left, Janković before a hearth with roasted
Turkish heads and limbs. On the right, the dwarf servant of the sultan’s
cook dropping his food in the ashes of the hearth. 194
Maps
7.1 Trade routes between Moscow and Caffa in the 1470s–1570s. 127
13.1 Pasturage requirement for one year for one tümen of Mongolian
warriors, at twenty-six sheep-equivalents per man. 244
13.2 Cherokee town clusters as they were c.1715. 249
13.3 Cherokee towns as of about 1760. Each cross indicates a town site that
had existed in 1715. The thick line approximates the amount of territory
abandoned by the Cherokees. 250
Tables
13.1 Conquest types in war between sedentary agricultural states 238
13.2 ‘Conquest’ types in war between steppe tribes 242
13.3 ‘Conquest’ types in war between Eastern Woodlands Native
Americans 247
Notes on contributors
Notes on contributors
Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the
University of Hull. He is the author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020),
The Atlantic in World History, 1492–1830 (2019), The Plantation Machine: Atlantic
Capitalism in French Saint Domingue and British Jamaica (2016), and Planters,
Merchants and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650–1820 (2015). He
is editor in chief of the Oxford Online Bibliographies in Atlantic History.
Michael W. Charney is Professor in the Department of History and the Centre
for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, the University of London,
where he teaches on violence, warfare, and international security. He has
published monographs on warfare in pre-modern Southeast Asia, the emer-
gence of military, religious, and intellectual networks in precolonial Myanmar,
Myanmar before and during the lengthy period of military rule, and the role of
Royal Engineers in circulating approaches to imperial transportation to India
and Myanmar. He is currently working on military culture and atrocities in
contemporary Myanmar.
Erica Charters is Associate Professor of Global History and the History of
Medicine in the History Faculty of the University of Oxford and Director of
Oxford’s Centre for Global History. She teaches on various aspects of the history
of early modern empires, medicine, and war. Her monograph Disease, War, and the
Imperial State (2014) won the Society for Army Historical Research (SAHR) 2014
Templer Medal for best first book and the American Association for the History of
Medicine (AAHM) 2016 George Rosen Prize. As well as articles on various aspects
