On violence in history

by Dwyer, Philip G. Micale, Mark Stephen

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"Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker's highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker's thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complicate…

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Full title :On violence in history / edited by Philip Dwyer, Mark S. Micale.

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Publication Date:2020

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Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

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Originally published as special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, volume 44, number 1.

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Description:1 online resource (x, 147 pages)

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ISBN:9781789204667, 1789204666
oclc:on1129180341
LC Classification:HM1116
Dewey Decimal:303.609

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Past as a Foreign Country -- Chapter 2. Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? -- Chapter 3. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker -- Chapter 4. The Complexity of History -- Chapter 5. Whitewashing History -- Chapter 6. Assessing Violence in the Modern World -- Chapter 7. The ""Moral Effect"" of Legalized Lawlessness -- Chapter 8. Does Better Angels of Our Nature Hold Up as History? -- Chapter 9. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence -- Chapter 10. The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature -- Chapter 11. What Pinker Leaves Out -- Index.