War in human civilization
Azar Gat
Bok · Engelsk · 2008
| Utgitt | Oxford University Press , 2008
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| Omfang | 848 s.
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| Opplysninger | Contents: PART ONE: WARFARE IN THE FIRST TWO MILLION YEARS: ENVIRONMENT, GENES, AND CULTURE; 1. The Human 'State of Nature'; 2. Peaceful or Warlike: Did Hunter-Gatherers Fight?; 3. Why Fighting? The Evolutionary Perspective; 4. Motivation: Food and Sex; 5. Motivation: the Web of Desire; 6. 'Primitive Warfare': How Was It Done?; 7. Conclusion: Fighting in the Evolutionary State of Nature; PART TWO: AGRICULTURE, CIVILIZATION, AND WAR; 8. Introduction: Evolving Cultural Complexity; 9. Tribal Warfare in Agraria and Pastoralia; 10. Armed Force in the Formation of the State; 11. The Eurasian Spearhead: East, West, and Steppe; 12. Conclusion: War, the Leviathan, and the Pleasures and Miseries of Civilization; PART THREE: MODERNITY: THE DUAL FACE OF JANUS; 13. Introduction: the Explosion of Wealth and Power; 14. Guns and Markets: the New European States and a Global World; 15. Unbound and Bound Prometheus: Machine-Age War; 16. Affluent Liberal Democracies, Ultimate Weapons, and the World; 17. Conclusion: Unravelling the Riddle of War
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| ISBN | 9780199236633
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