Atrocities
The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
Published on 31. October 2011
688 pages
978-0-393-08330-9 (ISBN)
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"An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes.”—New York Times
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about.” Reaching back to the Second Persian War in 480 BCE and moving chronologically through history, White surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories.More details
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Matthew White is the creator of the online Historical Atlas of the 20th Century. His data has been cited by forty-five published books and eighty scholarly articles. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Second Persian War
- Alexander the Great
- Age of Warring States
- First Punic War
- Qin Shi Huang Di
- Second Punic War
- MAP: The Roman Republic & Dominions ca. 133 BCE
- Gladiatorial Games
- Roman Slave Wars
- War of the Allies
- Third Mithridatic War
- Gallic War
- · Ancient Innumeracy ·
- Xin Dynasty
- Roman-Jewish Wars
- The Three Kingdoms of China
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Justinian
- Goguryeo-Sui Wars
- Mideast Slave Trade
- An Lushan Rebellion
- Mayan Collapse
- The Crusades
- · Religious Killing ·
- Fang La Rebellion
- Genghis Khan
- Albigensian Crusade
- Hulagu's Invasion
- Hundred Years War
- Fall of the Yuan Dynasty
- MAP: Ming China
- Bahmani-Vijayanagara War
- Timur
- Chinese Conquest of Vietnam
- Aztec Human Sacrifice
- Atlantic Slave Trade
- Conquest of the Americas
- · Genocide ·
- Burma-Siam Wars
- French Wars of Religion
- Russo-Tatar War
- The Time of Troubles
- Thirty Years War
- Collapse of the Ming Dynasty
- Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland
- Aurangzeb
- Great Turkish War
- MAP: Europe ca. 1675
- Peter the Great
- Great Northern War
- War of the Spanish Succession
- War of the Austrian Succession
- Sino-Dzungar War
- Seven Years War
- Napoleonic Wars
- · World Conquerors ·
- Haitian Slave Revolt
- Mexican War of Independence
- Shaka
- French Conquest of Algeria
- Taiping Rebellion
- MAP: Qing China 1850-1873
- Crimean War
- Panthay Rebellion
- American Civil War
- Hui Rebellion
- War of the Triple Alliance
- Franco-Prussian War
- Famines in British India
- Russo-Turkish War
- Mahdi Revolt
- Congo Free State
- Cuban Revolution
- · The Western Way of War ·
- Mexican Revolution
- First World War
- Russian Civil War
- Greco-Turkish War
- Chinese Civil War
- Joseph Stalin
- · Crazed Tyrants ·
- Italo-Ethiopian War
- Spanish Civil War
- Second World War
- Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe
- French Indochina War
- Partition of India
- Mao Zedong
- Korean War
- North Korea
- MAP: The Communist World ca. 1955
- · The Black Chapter of Communism ·
- Algerian War of Independence
- War in the Sudan
- Vietnam War
- · The Cold War ·
- Indonesian Purge
- Biafran War
- Bengali Genocide
- Idi Amin
- Mengistu Haile
- Postwar Vietnam
- Democratic Kampuchea
- MAP: Recent Africa 1960s-2000s
- Mozambican Civil War
- Angolan Civil War
- Ugandan Bush War
- · Post-Colonial Africa ·
- Soviet-Afghan War
- Saddam Hussein
- Iran-Iraq War
- Sanctions against Iraq
- Somalian Chaos
- Rwandan Genocide
- Second Congo War
- · Ranking: The One Hundred Deadliest Multicides ·
- What I Found: Analysis
- What I Found: Raw Numbers
- Appendix 1: Disputing the Top One Hundred
- Appendix 2: The Hemoclysm
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Praise for Atrocities
- Copyright
