The darker angels of our nature : refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence /: refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale.
• Editors: Dwyer, Philip G; Micale, Mark S, 1957-
• Contents: Preface List of Illustrations List of Contributors 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 NatureDan 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 ViolenceEric D. Weitz 5. Pinker's Technocratic Neoliberalism, and Why It MattersDavid Bell 6. Steven Pinker, Norbert Elias and the Civilizing ProcessPhilip 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 EnglandSara M. Butler 9. History, Violence and the EnlightenmentPhilip Dwyer Part Three: Places 10. The Complexity of History: Russia and Steven Pinker's ThesisNancy Kollmann 11. Necrology of Angels: Violence in Japanese History as a Lens of CritiqueMichael Wert 12. British Imperial Violence and the Middle EastCaroline 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 ViolenceJoanna Bourke 15. Where Angels Fear to Tread: Racialized Policing, Mass Incarceration, and Executions as State Violence in the Post-Civil Rights Era Robert T. Chase 16. The Better Angels of Which Nature? Violence and Environmental History in the Modern WorldCorey Ross 17. On Cool Reason and Hot-Blooded Impulses? Violence and the History of EmotionSusan K. Morrissey Part Five: Coda 18. Pinker and Contemporary Historical Consciousness Mark Micale Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.609; Violence -- History; Violence -- Historiography; Violence -- Psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350140615; 9781350140622
• Related ISBNs: 9781350140608; 9781350140592
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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