| Description |
1 online resource ( xvi, 400 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 03, 2021) |
| Subject |
Pinker, Steven, 1954- Better angels of our nature
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Violence -- History
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Violence -- Historiography
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Violence -- Psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dwyer, Philip G., editor
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Micale, Mark S., 1957- editor
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Bloomsbury (Firm)
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| LC no. |
2021000370 |
| ISBN |
9781350140622 |
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1350140627 |
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9781350140615 |
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1350140619 |
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9781350148437 |
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1350148431 |
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