History, violence, and Steven Pinker

Title: History, violence, and Steven Pinker
Creator: Micale, Mark S.; Dwyer, Philip
Relation: Historical Reflections Vol. 44, Issue 1, p. 1-5
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2018.440102
Publisher: Berghahn
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: In the closing months of 2011, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker published The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes. Weighing in at over eight hundred closely printed pages, Pinker's book advances a bold, revisionist thesis: despite the relentless deluge of violent, sensationalist stories in the pervasive electronic media of our day, Pinker proposes, violence in the human world, in nearly every form, has in fact declined dramatically. Over the past several thousand years, and particularly since the eighteenth century, homicides, criminal assaults, war casualties, domestic violence, child abuse, animal abuse, capital punishment, lynching, and rape have all been steadily diminishing in frequency.
Subject: violence; history; Steven Pinker; frequency
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444500
Identifier: uon:42322
Identifier: ISSN:0315-7997
Language: eng
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