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Author Frevert, Ute, author.

Title The politics of humiliation : a modern history / Ute Frevert ; translated by Adam Bresnahan
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Introduction: The power of shame -- Pillories and public beatings : state punishments under fire -- Social sites of public shaming : from the classroom to online bullying -- Honour and the language of humiliation in international politics -- Conclusion: No end in sight
Summary The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women collaborators in occupied France to the social media pillorying of the 21st century
Notes Translated from the German
Published in German as "Die Politik der Demütigung : Schauplätze von Macht und Ohnmacht" by Fischer, 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2020)
Subject Social control -- History
Social control -- Political aspects
Humiliation -- Social aspects
Social control
Social control -- Political aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bresnahan, Adam, translator
ISBN 9780192551917
0192551914
9780192551924
0192551922
Other Titles Die Politik der Demütigung. English