On Violence in History / / ed. by Mark S. Micale, Philip Dwyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bessel, Richard,; Bourke, Joanna,; Butler, Sara M.,; Dwyer, Philip,; Elkins, Caroline,; Fibiger, Linda,; Lord Smail, Daniel,; Micale, Mark S.,; Roth, Randolph,; Shields Kollmann, Nancy,; Trundle, Matthew,
• HerausgeberIn: Dwyer, Philip,; Micale, Mark S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 p.)

Is 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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction. History, Violence, and Steven Pinker
• Chapter 1. The Past as a Foreign Country: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Pinker’s “Prehistoric Anarchy”
• Chapter 2. Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature? Violence in Classical Athens
• Chapter 3. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker: Violence and Medieval England
• Chapter 4. The Complexity of History: Russia and Steven Pinker’s Thesis
• Chapter 5. Whitewashing History: Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence
• Chapter 6. Assessing Violence in the Modern World
• Chapter 7. The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness: Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire
• 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