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_aOn Violence in History / _ced. by Mark S. Micale, Philip Dwyer. |
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_aNew York ; _aOxford : _bBerghahn Books, _c[2020] |
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_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction. History, Violence, and Steven Pinker -- _tChapter 1. The Past as a Foreign Country: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pinker’s “Prehistoric Anarchy” -- _tChapter 2. Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? Violence in Classical Athens -- _tChapter 3. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker: Violence and Medieval England -- _tChapter 4. The Complexity of History: Russia and Steven Pinker’s Thesis -- _tChapter 5. Whitewashing History: Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence -- _tChapter 6. Assessing Violence in the Modern World -- _tChapter 7. The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness: Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire -- _tChapter 8. Does Better Angels of Our Nature Hold Up as History? -- _tChapter 9. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence -- _tChapter 10. The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature -- _tChapter 11. What Pinker Leaves Out -- _tIndex |
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| 520 | _aIs global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s proposal that violence has declined dramatically over time is flawed. This 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. From the introduction: Not all of the scholars included in this volume agree on everything, but the overall verdict is that Pinker’s thesis, for all the stimulus it may have given to discussions around violence, is seriously, if not fatally, flawed.The problems that come up time and again are the failure to genuinely engage with historical methodologies; the unquestioning use of dubious sources; the tendency to exaggerate the violence of the past in order to contrast it with the supposed peacefulness of the modern era; the creation of a number of straw men, which Pinker then goes on to debunk; and its extraordinarily Western-centric, not to say Whiggish, view of the world. Complex historical questions, as the essays in this volume clearly demonstrate, cannot be answered with any degree of certainty, and certainly not in a simplistic way. Our goal here is not to offer a final, definitive verdict on Pinker’s work; it is, rather, to initiate an ongoing process of assessment that in the future will incorporate as much of the history profession as possible. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | _aIn English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) | |
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_aViolence _xHistory. |
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_aHISTORY / Civilization. _2bisacsh |
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| 653 | _aBetter Angels of Our Nature. | ||
| 653 | _aSteven Pinker. | ||
| 653 | _aancient history. | ||
| 653 | _acivilizing process. | ||
| 653 | _acontroversy. | ||
| 653 | _adecline of violence. | ||
| 653 | _ademocracy. | ||
| 653 | _adiplomacy. | ||
| 653 | _afamous wars. | ||
| 653 | _aglobal violence. | ||
| 653 | _agovernment and governing. | ||
| 653 | _ahistorical controversies. | ||
| 653 | _ahistory of violence. | ||
| 653 | _ahuman condition. | ||
| 653 | _ahuman history. | ||
| 653 | _ahuman violence. | ||
| 653 | _ahumankind. | ||
| 653 | _asociology. | ||
| 653 | _aviolence in society. | ||
| 653 | _aviolence. | ||
| 653 | _awar and death. | ||
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_aBessel, Richard _eautore |
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_aBourke, Joanna _eautore |
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_aButler, Sara M. _eautore |
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_aDwyer, Philip _eautore _ecuratore |
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_aElkins, Caroline _eautore |
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_aFibiger, Linda _eautore |
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_aLord Smail, Daniel _eautore |
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_aMicale, Mark S. _eautore _ecuratore |
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_aRoth, Randolph _eautore |
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_aShields Kollmann, Nancy _eautore |
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_aTrundle, Matthew _eautore |
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