The Darker Angels of Our Nature

Name: The Darker Angels of Our Nature
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Philip Dwyer

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 410
Release Date:: 2021-09-09
Publication Date:: 2021-09-09
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350140597
ISBN13:: 9781350140592
Weight:: 620 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 22 cm

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