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On Violence in History
Contributor(s): Dwyer, Philip (Editor), Micale, Mark S. (Editor)
ISBN: 1789204658     ISBN-13: 9781789204650
Publisher: Berghahn Books
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Civilization
- Social Science | Violence In Society
- History | World - General
Dewey: 303.609
LCCN: 2019042146
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6" W x 9" (0.48 lbs) 150 pages
 
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Is global violence on the decline? Steven Pinker's highly-publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinker's thesis by exposing the realities of violence throughout human history. In doing so, they reveal the history of human violence to be richer, more thought-provoking, and considerably more complicated than Pinker claims.


Contributor Bio(s): Dwyer, Philip: -

Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has written on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, memoirs, violence, and colonialism, and is the general editor (with Joy Damousi) of the four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Micale, Mark S.: -

Mark S. Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where for many years he taught Modern European history and the history of medicine. He is the author or editor of several books, including Beyond the Unconscious, Discovering the History of Psychiatry, Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations, Traumatic Pasts, The Mind of Modernism, and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness.