On Violence in History. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philip Dwyer, Mark S. Micale.
• Editors: Dwyer, Philip; Micale, Mark S
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (150 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789204667; 1789204666
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.