Honour Violence and Emotions in History

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.