The Darker Angels of Our Nature

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  • The Darker Angels of Our Nature Book Detail

  • Author : Philip Dwyer
  • Release Date : 2021-09-09
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 417
  • ISBN 13 : 1350140597
  • File Size : 87,87 MB

The Darker Angels of Our Nature by Philip Dwyer PDF Summary

Book Description: Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Steven Pinker and the Nature of Violence in History Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale -- Part One: Interpretations -- 2. The Inner Demons of The Better Angels of Our Nature Dan Smail -- 3. The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Writing the History of Violence Dag Lindström -- 4. Progress and Its Contradictions: Human Rights, Inequality, and Violence Eric D. Weitz -- 5. Pinker's Technocratic Neoliberalism, and Why It Matters David Bell -- 6. Steven Pinker, Norbert Elias and the 'Civilizing Process' Philip Dwyer and Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen -- Part Two: Periods -- 7. Steven Pinker's 'Prehistoric Anarchy': A Bioarchaeological Critique Linda Fibiger -- 8. Getting Medieval on Steven Pinker: Violence and Medieval England Sara M. Butler -- 9. History, Violence and the Enlightenment Philip Dwyer -- Part Three: Places -- 10. The Complexity of History: Russia and Steven Pinker's Thesis Nancy Kollmann -- 11. Necrology of Angels: Violence in Japanese History as a Lens of Critique Michael Wert -- 12. The 'Moral Effect' of Legalized Lawlessness: British Imperial Violence and the Middle East Caroline Elkins -- Part Four: Themes -- 13. A History of Violence and Indigeneity: Pinker and the Native Americas Matthew Restall -- 14. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence Joanna Bourke -- 15. The Better Angels of Which Nature? Violence and Environmental History in the Modern World Corey Ross -- 16. On Cool Reason and Hot-Blooded Impulses? Violence and the History of Emotion Susan K. Morrissey -- Part Five: Coda 17. Pinker and Contemporary Historical Consciousness Mark Micale -- Bibliography -- Index.

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