The darker angels of our nature : refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Bloomsbury (Firm)
Other Authors:	Dwyer, Philip G. (Editor), Micale, Mark S., 1957- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Subjects:	Pinker, Steven, > 1954- > Better angels of our nature. Violence > History. Violence > Historiography. Violence > Psychology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.