On Violence in History

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-465-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dwyer, Philip

Micale, Mark S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dwyer, Philip
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.

Micale, Mark S.
Mark S. Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where for many years he taught Modern European history and the history of medicine. He is the author or editor of several books, including Beyond the Unconscious, Discovering the History of Psychiatry, Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations, Traumatic Pasts, The Mind of Modernism, and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness.

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.