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On violence in history /

"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 interrog...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dwyer, Philip G. (Editor ), Micale, Mark Stephen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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