Violence and Visibility in Modern History

1. Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; Jürgen Martschukat and 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 Collections of 19th Century Case Studies; 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 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 Job 13. Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore's Ford Lynching; Dora Apel