War Before Civilization
By Lawrence H. Keeley
Published by Oxford University Press
Year Published 1996
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
This book deals with warfare conducted throughout human history by societies with little technology. In the book, Keeley aims to stop the apparent trend in seeing modern civilization as bad, by setting out to prove that prehistoric societies were often violent and engaged in frequent warfare that was highly destructive to the cultures involved. Keeley’s book offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths about the “Nobel Savage” and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization. The author denounces this idea as “ the pacification of the past.”
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By Lawrence H. Keeley
Published by Oxford University Press
Year Published 1996
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
This book deals with warfare conducted throughout human history by societies with little technology. In the book, Keeley aims to stop the apparent trend in seeing modern civilization as bad, by setting out to prove that prehistoric societies were often violent and engaged in frequent warfare that was highly destructive to the cultures involved. Keeley’s book offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths about the “Nobel Savage” and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization. The author denounces this idea as “ the pacification of the past.”
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By Lawrence H. Keeley
Published by Oxford University Press
Year Published 1996
Book Format - Hard cover
Summary
This book deals with warfare conducted throughout human history by societies with little technology. In the book, Keeley aims to stop the apparent trend in seeing modern civilization as bad, by setting out to prove that prehistoric societies were often violent and engaged in frequent warfare that was highly destructive to the cultures involved. Keeley’s book offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths about the “Nobel Savage” and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization. The author denounces this idea as “ the pacification of the past.”
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