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The darker angels of our nature : refuting the Pinker theory of history & violence / edited by Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale.

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Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.

Pinker, Steven, 1954- Better angels of our nature -- Criticism and interpretation.

Violence -- History.

Essays -- 21st century.

9781350140592 (pbk.)

xv, 393 p. ; 25 cm.

Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon.

Mark Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Beyond the Unconscious; Discovering the History of Psychiatry; Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930; The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940; and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A set of critical essays on Seven Pinker's book 'Better Angels of Our Nature' by sixteen scholars of international stature. Edited by Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale.

Dwyer, Philip G.

Micale, Mark S., 1957-

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