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(Paperback)
By: Daniel V. Botsman
ISBN: 9780691130309
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world.
