Murder and mass murder in pre-modern Latin America: from pre-colonial Aztec sacrifices to the end of colonial rule ; an introductory comparison with European societies

"Over the past several decades, the study of violence and homicide in a number of pre-modern and modern European societies has become an area of considerable scholarly focus. Through the painstaking efforts of many scholars, we now can state with considerable confidence that the long-term trajectory of homicide rates in most European societies has undergone a dramatic decline over the centuries. I…