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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