Violence and Visibility in Modern History

1. Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Jürgen Martschukat, Silvan Niedermeier

2. Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo
Colin Dayan

Part I. Visibilities of Crime, Policing, and Punishment

3. The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections
Thomas Weitin

4. Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States
Bruce Dorsey

5. The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900
Martha Hodes

6. Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940–1955
Silvan Niedermeier

7. The “Vicarious Play” of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895–1905
Amy Louise Wood

8. Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War
Michael Wildt

Part II. Visibilities of Warfare

9. Life and Death in Peep Boxes: Bringing the Civil War to the American Home
Annette Jael Lehmann

10. Images of Violence in Wehrmacht Soldiers’ Private Photo Albums
Petra Bopp

11. Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC’s Fictional Miniseries Holocaust
Jan Taubitz

12. Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence
Sebastian Jobs

13. Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore’s Ford Lynching
Dora Apel

Keywords: History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Modern History, Social History, History of Military, Sociology, general