ISBN:
9780195309485
,
9780199725052 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
352 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780199725052
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
Krieg
;
Kriegführung
;
Friede
;
Friedensbemühung
;
Konfliktregelung
Abstract:
The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues in Beyond War, the facts show that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. Fry points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
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