9781350140608-1350140600-Darker Angels of Our Nature, The: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

Darker Angels of Our Nature, The: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

ISBN-13: 9781350140608
ISBN-10: 1350140600
Author: Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover 410 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781350140608
ISBN-10: 1350140600
Author: Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover 410 pages

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Darker Angels of Our Nature, The: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence (ISBN-13: 9781350140608 and ISBN-10: 1350140600), written by authors Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Historical Study & Educational Resources (World History, Violence in Society, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Darker Angels of Our Nature, The: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Historical Study & Educational Resources books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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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