Violence and punishment : civilizing the body through time
Introduction: Violence and Punishment within Civilizing Processes page 1 PART ONE Violence 1 Long-Term Trends in Homicide: Amsterdam, Fifteenth Twentieth Centuries 19 2 Homicide and the Law in the Dutch Republic: A Peaceful Country? 39 3 Violence and Culture: Bloodshed in Two or Three Worlds 57 PART TWO Punishment and Social Control 4 Punishment, Power and History: Foucault and Elias 75 5 Monkey Butt s Mate: On Informal Social Control, Standards of Violence and Notions of Privacy 92 6 "The Green, Green Grass of Home:" Refl ections on Capital Punishment and the Penal System in Europe and America from a Long-Term Perspective 104 PART THREE Civilizing the Body in Human History 7 Elites and Etiquette: Changing Standards of Personal Conduct in the Netherlands until 1800 129 8 Civilizing Celebrations: An Exploration of the Festive Universe 151 9 The Body s End: Death and Paradise in Human History 163 Epilogue: A Personal Recollection of Norbert Elias and How I Became a Crime Historian 174 Notes 181 Archival Sources 200 Bibliography 201 Index 221