Violence: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780198831730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 152 str.

The Univ Centre for the Study of Violence Philip (Director

Opis

Violence is part and parcel of both human history and nature. It is the one thing that all cultures and societies share in common. This book considers violence in the modern world, examining the ideas underpinning it, and the cultural context for violence over the last two centuries. It also asks if we are becoming more or less violent.

Recenzje

Violence: A Very Short Introduction contains some compelling arguments worth noting. Madeleine K. Meehan and Todd K. Shackelford, Evolutionary Psychological Science

O autorze

Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon. He is the general editor of the four volume Cambridge World History of Violence (2020), and co-editor of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars (2021, with Michael Broers). He is currently engaged in writing a global history of violence, as well as a history of iconoclasm.