Darker Angels of Our Nature

Darker Angels of Our Nature

Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

Dwyer, Philip; Micale, Mark

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

09/2021

416

Dura

Inglês

9781350140608

15 a 20 dias

748

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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 Nature
Dan Smail

3. The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Writing the History of Violence
Dag Lindstroem

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: Periods

7. 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: Places

10. 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: Themes

13. 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: Coda
18. Pinker and Contemporary Historical Consciousness
Mark Micale
Bibliography
Index
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