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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dwyer, Philip G. (Editor ), Micale, Mark Stephen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2020]
Temas:
Violence > History.
Violence > Histoire.
HISTORY / Civilization
Violence
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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