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The darker angels of our nature : refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence
Title
The darker angels of our nature : refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence / edited by Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale.
ISBN
9781350140608
1350140600
9781350140592
1350140597
9781350140615
9781350140622
Publication
London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
xv, 393 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis? In The Darker Angels of our Nature, fifteen historians of international stature evaluate Pinker's arguments and find them lacking. Studying the history of violence from Soviet Russia to Native America, Medieval England and the Imperial Middle East, these scholars debunk the myth of non-violent modernity. Asserting that the real story of human violence is richer, more interesting and incomparably more complex than Pinker's sweeping, simplified narrative, this book tests, and bests, 'fake history' with expert knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Darker angels of our nature London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 16, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Steven Pinker and the nature of violence in history / Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale
The inner demons of the better angels of our nature / Dan Smail
The use and abuse of statistics in writing the history of violence / Dag Lindström
Progress and its contradictions : human rights, inequality, and violence / Eric D. Weitz
Pinker's technocratic neoliberalism, and why it matters / David Bell
Steven Pinker, Norbert Elias and the civilizing process / Philip Dwyer and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Steven Pinker's 'Prehistoric anarchy' : a bioarchaeological critique / Linda Fibiger
Getting medieval on Steven Pinker : violence and medieval England / Sara M. Butler
History, Violence and the Enlightenment / Philip Dwyer
The complexity of history : Russia and Steven Pinker's thesis / Nancy Kollmann
Necrology of angels : violence in Japanese history as a lens of critique / Michael Wert
British imperial violence and the Middle East / Caroline Elkins
A history of violence and indigeneity : Pinker and the Native Americas / Matthew Restall
The rise and rise of sexual violence / Joanna Bourke
Where angels fear to tread : racialized policing, mass incarceration, and executions as state violence in the post-civil rights era / Robert T. Chase
The better angels of which nature? Violence and environmental history in the modern world / Corey Ross
On cool reason and hot-blooded impulses? Violence and the history of emotion / Susan K. Morrissey
Pinker and contemporary historical consciousness / Mark Micale.
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