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The Darker Angels of Our Nature
Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
Taschenbuch von Mark Micale (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis?

In The Darker Angels of our Nature, seventeen scholars of international stature evaluate Pinker's arguments and find them lacking. Studying the history of violence from Japan and Russia to Native America, Medieval England and the Imperial Middle East, these scholars debunk the myth of non-violent modernity. Asserting that the real story of human violence is richer, more interesting and incomparably more complex than Pinker's sweeping, simplified narrative, this book tests, and bests, 'fake history' with expert knowledge.
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis?

In The Darker Angels of our Nature, seventeen scholars of international stature evaluate Pinker's arguments and find them lacking. Studying the history of violence from Japan and Russia to Native America, Medieval England and the Imperial Middle East, these scholars debunk the myth of non-violent modernity. Asserting that the real story of human violence is richer, more interesting and incomparably more complex than Pinker's sweeping, simplified narrative, this book tests, and bests, 'fake history' with expert knowledge.
Über den Autor
Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon.

Mark Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Beyond the Unconscious; Discovering the History of Psychiatry; Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930; The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940; and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, and Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming).
Zusammenfassung
Provides an overview of the current state of play in the history of violence
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Steven Pinker and the Nature of Violence in History
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale

Part One: Interpretations2. 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: Periods7. 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: Places10. 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. British Imperial Violence and the Middle East
Caroline Elkins

Part Four: Themes13. A History of Violence and Indigeneity: Pinker and the Native Americas
Matthew Restall

14. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence
Joanna 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 World
Corey Ross

17. On Cool Reason and Hot-Blooded Impulses? Violence and the History of Emotion
Susan K. Morrissey

Part Five: Coda18. Pinker and Contemporary Historical Consciousness
Mark Micale
Bibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350140592
ISBN-10: 1350140597
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Micale, Mark
Dwyer, Philip
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Micale (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,642 kg
preigu-id: 118925196
Über den Autor
Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon.

Mark Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Beyond the Unconscious; Discovering the History of Psychiatry; Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930; The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940; and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, and Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming).
Zusammenfassung
Provides an overview of the current state of play in the history of violence
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface List of Illustrations List of Contributors 1. Steven Pinker and the Nature of Violence in History
Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale

Part One: Interpretations2. 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: Periods7. 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: Places10. 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. British Imperial Violence and the Middle East
Caroline Elkins

Part Four: Themes13. A History of Violence and Indigeneity: Pinker and the Native Americas
Matthew Restall

14. The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence
Joanna 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 World
Corey Ross

17. On Cool Reason and Hot-Blooded Impulses? Violence and the History of Emotion
Susan K. Morrissey

Part Five: Coda18. Pinker and Contemporary Historical Consciousness
Mark Micale
Bibliography Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350140592
ISBN-10: 1350140597
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Micale, Mark
Dwyer, Philip
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Micale (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,642 kg
preigu-id: 118925196
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