Introduction Robert Antony; Part I. Empire, Race and Ethnicity: 1. Violence and the slave trade in the Atlantic world Trevor Burnard; 2. Violence and race in Colonial America Cécile Vidal; 3. Violence and race in Colonial Latin America Hal Langfur; 4. Violence, race and religion in the Ottoman Empire Molly Greene; Part II. Warfare: 5. Human sacrifice in the Americas, ritualized violence and the Colonial encounter in the Americas, 1500 to 1800 Wolfgang Gabbert; 6. Chinese ways of warfare Kenneth Swope; 7. Violence and war in the Colonial Americas Matthew Restall; 8. Warrior ascetics and the Indian Empire William Pinch; 9. Warfare in Europe Peter H. Wilson; 10. Approaching violence in Africa before the Imperial age Richard Rathbone; Part III. Intimate and Gendered Violence: 11. Legal understandings of sexual and domestic violence in early modern China Matthew H. Sommer; 12. Samurai, masculinity and violence in Japan Constantine N. Vaporis; 13. Gender and violence in early America John G. McCurdy; 14. Sexual and domestic violence in Europe Elizabeth Malcolm and Dianne Hall; 15. Men fighting: Europe from a global perspective Pieter Spierenburg; 16. Suicide in the early modern world David Lederer; Part V. The State, Punishment and Justice: 17. Crime and punishment in the Russian Empire Nancy Shields Kollmann; 18. Homicide and punishment in China Thomas Buoye; 19. Crime and justice in the Americas Jack Marietta; 20. Violence and justice in Europe: punishment, torture, execution Sara Beam; 21. Legitimized violence in Colonial Spanish America Matthew Restall; Part V. Popular Protest and Resistance: 22. Rebellion and violence in Vietnam George Dutton; 23. Piracy in Asia and the West Kris Lane and Robert J. Antony; 24. Riots, rebellions and revolutions in Europe Julius Ruff; Part VI. Religious, Sacred and Ritualized Violence: 25. Violence, religion and the state in East Asia Thomas DuBois; 26. Persecution: heresy and witchcraft Robert W. Thurston; 27. Inter-communal violence in Europe Penny Roberts; 28. 'Little Odious Vermin': violence, animals, and sport in Europe and the Colonies, 1500–1800 Bruce Boehrer; Part VII. Representations and Constructions of Violence: 29. Mediating violence: intercultural representations in the Colonization of the Americas Federico Navarrete Linares; 30. Violence identity and representation in seventeenth century South Asia Vinita Damodaran and Ayesha Mukherjee; 31. Spectacles of violence in South China Robert J. Antony; 32. Violence, civility and civilisation in Europe Stuart Carroll; 33. Tales of banditry, corruption, and sovereignty in the late Ottoman Empire Tolga U. Esmer; 34. Visual representations of violence in Europe Charles Zika.