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Pieter Spierenburg, PhD

Professor

 

Publications

Selection of major and recent titles

  • The Spectacle of Suffering: Executions and the Evolution of Repression: From a Preindustrial Metropolis to the European Experience. Cambridge (Cambridge UP) 1984 (reissued in 2008).

 

  • The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and their Inmates in Early Modern Europe. New Brunswick, London (Rutgers UP) 1991 (reissued by Amsterdam University Press in 2007).

 

  • De Verbroken Betovering: Mentaliteit en Cultuur in Preïndustrieel Europa. Hilversum (Verloren) 1998.

 

  • Men and Violence: Gender, Honor and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (editor). Columbus, OH (Ohio State UP) 1998.

 

  • Written in Blood: Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam. Columbus (Ohio State University Press) 2004.

 

  • Democracy Came Too Early: A Tentative Explanation for the Problem of American Homicide.
    in: American Historical Review 111,1 (2006): 104-14.

 

  • (editor, with Sophie Body-Gendrot), Violence in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
    New York (Springer) 2008.

 

  • A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. Cambridge (Polity) 2008.

  • (editor, with Laurent Mucchielli), Histoire de l'Homicide en Europe: De la Fin du Moyen Âge à Nos Jours. Paris (La Découverte) 2009.