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By expanding the geographical scope of the history of violence and war, this volume challenges both Western and state-centric narratives of the decline of violence and its relationship to modernity. It highlights instead similarities across early modernity in terms of representations, legitimations, applications of, and motivations for violence. It seeks to integrate methodologies of the study of violence into the history of war, thereby extending the historical significance of both fields of research. Thirteen case studies outline the myriad ways in which large-scale violence was understood and used by states and non-state actors throughout the early modern period across Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Atlantic, and Europe, demonstrating that it was far more complex than would be suggested by simple narratives of conquest and resistance. Moreover, key features of imperial violence apply equally to large-scale violence within societies. As the authors argue, violence was a continuum, ranging from small-scale, local actions to full-blown war. The latter was privileged legally and increasingly associated with states during early modernity, but its legitimacy was frequently contested and many of its violent forms, such as raiding and destruction of buildings and crops, could be found in activities not officially classed as war.

Technology & Engineering / Agriculture --- Technology --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Banditry. --- Early Modern World. --- Ideology. --- Militarisation. --- Piracy. --- Raiding. --- Restraint. --- Slavery. --- Violence. --- War.

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Der Siebenjährige Krieg (1756-1763) war ein globaler Konflikt mit Schauplätzen in Europa, Afrika, Amerika und Südasien. Ein Szenario, das nicht nur die Frage nach Formen globaler Verflechtungen aufwirft, sondern zu einer grundsätzlichen Reflexion über das Verhältnis von Mikro- und Makrogeschichten frühmoderner Kriege Anlass bietet. Wie verhielten sich Gewalt und Leid vor Ort zu den geopolitischen Strategien der europäischen Monarchien? Ausgewiesene, internationale Expertinnen und Experten widmen sich dem großen Krieg aus der Nähe aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln und mit neuen Forschungsansätzen. Die Beiträge des Bandes handeln u. a. von diplomatischem Kalkül und weltweiten Kommunikationsnetzwerken, von der Praxis militärischer Gewalt in Belagerungen, von der Finanzierung und Zählung von Streitkräften oder den Erfahrungen von Okkupationen vor Ort. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der bislang weniger gewürdigten Verwicklung des spanischen Imperiums in den Konflikt. The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was a global conflict with battlefields in Europe, Africa, America, and South Asia. The essays in this volume examine various topics, including diplomatic calculations, global communication networks, military violence in siege warfare, the financing of armed forces, and the on-site experience of occupations. Particular attention is devoted to Spain's entanglement in the conflict.

Occupations. --- communication. --- diplomacy. --- global history. --- violence.