On violence in history
Introduction : History, Violence, and Steven Pinker (Mark S. Micale and Philip Dwyer) -- The Past as a Foreign Country Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pinker's "Prehistoric Anarchy" (Linda Fibiger) -- Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? Violence in Classical Athens...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, Oxford
Berghahn Books
2020
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| Ausgabe: | First Edition |
| Schlagworte: |
Violence
> History
> Gewalttätigkeit
> Reduktion
> Rückgang
> Geschichte
> Kritik
> Erde
> Aufsatzsammlung
> Gewalt
> Pinker, Steven
> Theorie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : History, Violence, and Steven Pinker (Mark S. Micale and Philip Dwyer) -- The Past as a Foreign Country Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pinker's "Prehistoric Anarchy" (Linda Fibiger) -- Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? Violence in Classical Athens (Matthew Trundle) -- Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker Violence and Medieval England (Sara M. Butler) -- The Complexity of History Russia and Steven Pinker's Thesis (Nancy Shields Kollmann) -- Whitewashing History Pinker's (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence (Philip Dwyer) -- Assessing Violence in the Modern World (Richard Bessel) -- The "Moral Effect" of Legalized Lawlessness Violence in Britain's Twentieth-Century Empire (Caroline Elkins) -- Does Better Angels of Our Nature Hold Up as History? (Randolph Roth) -- The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence (Joanna Bourke) -- The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature (Daniel Lord Smail) -- What Pinker Leaves Out (Mark S. Micale) "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 complicated than Pinker claims"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | x, 147 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781789204643 978-1-78920-464-3 9781789204650 978-1-78920-465-0 |