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Organized Violence and Historical Sociology

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This chapter briefly reviews and analyzes the key contributions on organized violence within historical sociology. It explores both the macro- and micro-level studies that have influenced recent debates within the field. The first section looks at war and warfare, the second section analyzes the clandestine political violence, the third section explores the revolutions, and the final section engages with the scholarship on genocides.

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  1. Université libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Christian Olsson

  2. School of Sociology, University College, Dublin, Ireland

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Olsson, C., Malešević, S. (2022). Organized Violence and Historical Sociology. In: McCallum, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7255-2_51

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