Theatres of violence : massacre, mass killing, and atrocity throughout history / edited by Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan.

Papers from an international interdisciplinary symposium held at Newcastle, Australia, September 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.

Introduction: the massacre and history / Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan -- The origins of massacres / John Docker -- Massacre in the Peloponnesian War / Brian Bosworth -- "The abominable quibble": Alexander's massacre of indian mercenaries at Massaga / Elizabeth Baynham -- The Roman concept of massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul / Jane Bellemore -- Atrocity and massacre in the high and late middle ages / Laurence W. Marvin -- A sea of blood? Massacres during the wars of the three kingdoms, 1641-1653 / Inga Jones -- Looking the other way: the Gnadenhütten massacre and the contextual interpretation of violence / Rob Harper -- Settler massacres on the Australian colonial frontier, 1836-1851 / Lyndall Ryan -- Tactics of nineteenth-century colonial massacre: Tasmania, California, and beyond / Benjamin Madley -- A blueprint for massacre: the United States army and the 1870 Blackfeet massacre / Blanca Tovias -- When massacre appears: representations of Australian indigenous massacres in fiction / Katrina Schlunke -- Memories of massacres and atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Philip G. Dwyer -- Stalin's trap: the Katyn forest massacre between propaganda and taboo / Claudia Weber -- The great secret: sites of mass killings in Stalinist Russia / François-Xavier Nérard -- Spectacular atrocities: making enemies during the 1965-1966 massacres in Indonesia / Annie Pohlman -- A necessary salve: the "Hue massacre" in history and memory / Scott Laderman -- A battle for perceptions: revisiting the Cassinga controversy in southern Africa / Gary Baines -- Method in their madness: understanding the dynamics of the Italian massacre of Ethiopian civilians, February-May 1937 / Giuseppe Finaldi -- The Algerian war on French soil: the Paris massacre of 17 October 1961 / Hélène Jaccomard -- Wedding massacres and the war in Afghanistan / Stephen J. Rockel.