The Cambridge World History of Violence will be published by Cambridge University Press in the UK as a four-volume set on March 26, 2020. Volume III, 1500-1800 CE. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. The four-volume collection is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive examination of violence from prehistory to the present, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, IMAGE: The collection's first volume provides readers with a wide-ranging examination of violence as a broad phenomenon from prehistory to the end of classical antiquity. All four volumes are available for pre-order now from Cambridge University Press. This four-volume Cambridge World History of Violence is the first collection of its kind to look at violence across different periods of human history and different regions of the world. @MPI_SHH, Copyright © 2020 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Cover image. This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. Leading experts from around the world have pooled their knowledge to provide concise, authoritative examinations of the complex phenomenon of human violence. Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world. It may takes up to 1-5 minutes before you received it. Volume I: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds is co-edited by Mark Hudson, a researcher with the Eurasia3angle Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH). Publication in North America will follow in May. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. The file will be sent to your email address.
Annotated bibliographies provide overviews of the shape of the research field. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £20. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. EurekAlert! Publication in North America will follow in May. The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. The chapters on ancient history revisit familiar topics such as Roman warfare and gladiators, but also include a range of fresh perspectives, including crime and law in classical Athens, warfare in early imperial China, and ideologies of violence in ancient India. The Cambridge World History of Violence provides both a more global and a more contextual take on Pinker's work, showing that a lot of evidence from prehistory and antiquity does not support his hypothesis. This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. Covering southern Africa, the Near East,... EurekAlert!
Together, the chapters provide in-depth understanding of the ways that humans have perpetrated violence, justified its use, attempted to contain its spread and narrated the stories of its impacts.
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. New archaeological analyses of skeletal trauma are transforming our understanding of prehistoric violence and this volume provides a detailed update of that exciting work, which has been pioneered in part by my co-editor Linda Fibiger. Andrew (AJ) Zeilstra Readers also gain insight into the mechanisms by which the parameters about the acceptable limits to and locations of violence have dramatically altered over the course of a few decades.