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The Darker Angels of Our Nature : Refuting the Pinker Theory of History and Violence by Philip G Dwyer; Mark S Micale is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Philip G Dwyer; Mark S Micale

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350140622

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science