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Author(s): Azar Gat
ISBN(s): 9780199262137, 0199262136
Edition: annotated edition
File Details: PDF, 9.09 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199262136
ISBN 13: 9780199262137
Author: Azar Gat

Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today – is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of war and civilization, Azar Gat sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt to unravel the ‘riddle of war’ throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the book generates an astonishing wealth of original and fascinating insights on all major aspects of humankind’s remarkable journey through the ages, engaging a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology and evolutionary psychology to sociology and political science. Written with remarkable verve and clarity and wholly free from jargon, it will be of interest to anyone who has ever pondered the puzzle of war.

War in Human Civilization 1st Table of contents:

PART 1. Warfare in the First Two Million Years: Environment, Genes, and Culture
1. Introduction: The ‘Human State of Nature’
2. Peaceful or War-like: 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 2. Agriculture, Civilization, and War
8. Introduction: Evolving Cultural Complexity
9. Tribal Warfare in Agraria and Pastoralia
10. Armed Force in the Emergence of the State
11. The Eurasian Spearhead: East, West, and the Steppe
12. Conclusion: War, the Leviathan, and the Pleasures and Miseries of Civilization
PART 3. 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. A.uent Liberal Democracies, Ultimate Weapons, and the World
17. Conclusion: Unravelling the Riddle of War

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