Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process...

List of Tables, Illustrations, and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction: The Massacre and History Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan PART I: MASSACRE AND ATROCITY IN THE ANCIENT AND PRE-MODERN ERAS Chapter 1. The Origins of Massacres John Docker Chapter 2. Massacres in the Peloponnesian War Brian Bosworth Chapter 3. “The Abominable Quibble”: Alexander’s Massacre of Indian Mercenaries at Massaga Elizabeth Baynham Chapter 4. The Roman Concept of Massacre: Julius Caesar in Gaul  Jane Bellemore Chapter 5. Atrocity and Massacre in the High and Late Middle-Ages Laurence W.  Marvin Chapter 6. A Sea of Blood? Massacres during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641–53 Inga Jones PART II: THE COLONIAL FRONTIER Chapter 7. Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence Rob Harper Chapter 8. Settler Massacres on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1836-1851  Lyndall Ryan Chapter 9. Tactics of Nineteenth Century Colonial Massacre: Tasmania, California and Beyond Benjamin Madley Chapter 10. A Blueprint for Massacre: The United States Army and the 1870 Blackfeet Massacre Blanca Tovías de Plaisted Chapter 11. When Massacre Appears: Representations of Australian Indigenous Massacres in Fiction Katrina Schlunke PART III: CONTESTED NARRATIVES: MEMORY, ATROCITY AND MASSACRE Chapter 12. Memories of Massacres and Atrocities during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Philip Dwyer Chapter 13. Stalin’s Trap: The Katyn Forest Massacre between Propaganda and Taboo Claudia Weber Chapter 14. The Great Secret: Sites of Mass Killings in Stalinist Russia François-Xavier Nérard Chapter 15. Spectacular Atrocities: Making Enemies during the 1965-1966 Massacres in Indonesia Annie Pohlman Chapter 16. A Necessary Salve: The ‘Hue Massacre’ in History and Memory Scott Laderman Chapter 17. A Battle for Perceptions: Revisiting the Cassinga Controversy in Southern Africa Gary Baines PART IV: THE DYNAMICS OF MODERN MASSACRE AND MASS KILLING Chapter 18. Method in their Madness: Understanding the Dynamics of the Italian Massacre of Ethiopian Civilians, February-May 1937 Giuseppe Finaldi Chapter 19. The Algerian War on French Soil : The Paris Massacre of 17 October 1961 Hélène Jaccomard Chapter 20. Wedding Massacres and the War in Afghanistan Stephen J. Rockel Select Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index