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.
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.
Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has written on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, memoirs, violence, and colonialism, and is the general editor (with Joy Damousi) of the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Mark S. Micale and Philip Dwyer Introduction: History, Violence, and Steven Pinker Mark S. Micale and Philip Dwyer Chapter 1. The Past as a Foreign Country Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pinker's "Prehistoric Anarchy" Linda Fibiger Chapter 2. Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? Violence in Classical Athens Matthew Trundle Chapter 3. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker Violence and Medieval England Sara M. Butler Chapter 4. The Complexity of History Russia and Steven Pinker's Thesis Nancy Shields Kollmann Chapter 5. Whitewashing History Pinker's (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence Philip Dwyer Chapter 6. Assessing Violence in the Modern World Richard Bessel Chapter 7. The "Moral Effect" of Legalized Lawlessness Violence in Britain's Twentieth-Century Empire Caroline Elkins Chapter 8. Does Better Angels of Our Nature Hold Up as History? Randolph Roth Chapter 9. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence Joanna Bourke Chapter 10. The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature Daniel Lord Smail Chapter 11. What Pinker Leaves Out Mark S. Micale
Preface Mark S. Micale and Philip Dwyer Introduction: History, Violence, and Steven Pinker Mark S. Micale and Philip Dwyer Chapter 1. The Past as a Foreign Country Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pinker's "Prehistoric Anarchy" Linda Fibiger Chapter 2. Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? Violence in Classical Athens Matthew Trundle Chapter 3. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker Violence and Medieval England Sara M. Butler Chapter 4. The Complexity of History Russia and Steven Pinker's Thesis Nancy Shields Kollmann Chapter 5. Whitewashing History Pinker's (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence Philip Dwyer Chapter 6. Assessing Violence in the Modern World Richard Bessel Chapter 7. The "Moral Effect" of Legalized Lawlessness Violence in Britain's Twentieth-Century Empire Caroline Elkins Chapter 8. Does Better Angels of Our Nature Hold Up as History? Randolph Roth Chapter 9. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence Joanna Bourke Chapter 10. The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature Daniel Lord Smail Chapter 11. What Pinker Leaves Out Mark S. Micale
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