On Violence in History

On Violence in HistoryIs global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinkers proposal that violence has declined dramatically over time is flawed. This highly publicized argument that human violence across the world has been dramatically abating continues to influence discourse among academics and the general public alike. In this provocative volume, a cast of eminent historians interrogate Pinkers thesis by exposing the realities of

This is an analysis of the complex relationship between social relations and spatial relations

offers a fascinating and comprehensive reference work that is useful to family and local historians

set out to explore the dramaturgy of music and the musicality of drama

the editors bring together experts

but it is also his most personal and moving one

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate

This book chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora using websites based in Europe and North America

in a wider historical and aesthetic context

the Free Speech

the costumes and the spectacle of the Hong Kong Ballet

and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people

and long-term care