Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to plague writing from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously between the medieval pa…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The genocidal process: a constructivist approach -- Introduction -- I. Defining genocide -- II. Theorizing genocide -- III. A constructivist theory of genocide: an overview -- IV. The cases: the final …
"Aussi incroyable que cela paraisse, nous vivons l’époque la moins violente et la plus paisible de toute l’histoire de l’humanité. S’appuyant sur des milliers d’études, plus de trente années de recherches et des statistiques incontestables, Steven Pinker montre que, malgré le te…
"S'appuyant sur des milliers d'études, plus de trente années de recherches et des statistiques incontestables, Steven Pinker montre que, malgré le terrorisme, malgré les conflits contemporains, la violence n'a cessé de diminuer dans le monde au cours des siècles. Des premiers my…
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning …
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning …
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning …
The Cambridge world history of violence
The Cambridge world history of violence
The Cambridge world history of violence
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning …
The Cambridge world history of violence
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning …