The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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by Steven Pinker


  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gore, Al

  Gorton, William

  Gottfredson, Michael

  Gottschall, Jonathan

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  government:

  anarchy contrasted with

  benefits of

  and civilization

  and civil war

  coercive

  and conquest

  emergence of

  genocides by

  good

  and justice system

  legitimate use of violence by

  in medieval times

  and official discrimination

  as technology

  trust in

  violence controlled by

  violence perpetrated by

  world

  see also anarchy; anocracy; autocracy; democracy; Leviathan; monarchy

  Grafton, Anthony

  Grand Illusion (film)

  Graves, Robert

  Gray, Heather

  Gray, John

  Gray, Kurt

  Great Britain, see Britain/United Kingdom; England; Scotland; Wales

  Great Dictator, The (film)

  great powers

  aggrandizement of

  aspiring

  in Cold War

  interstate wars of

  modern international order

  and peacekeeping

  and Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Greece, ancient

  Athenian democracy

  human sacrifice in

  infanticide in

  slavery in

  Greece, modern

  homicides in

  Greene, Joshua

  Greenfield, Liah

  Green movement

  Gregory I, Pope

  Gregory VII, Pope

  Grenada

  Grey, Lady Jane

  Grimm’s Fairy Tales

  Groebner, Valentin

  Grotius, Hugo

  group processes; see also conformity; crowds, madness of; groupthink

  groupthink

  Guardian Angels

  Guatemala

  guerrillas

  Guevara, Che

  guillotine

  guilt

  Gurr, Ted Robert

  Gutenberg, Johannes

  Guthrie, Arlo

  gynecide

  Habsburg dynasty

  Hacker, Andrew

  Hagen, Edward

  Hague Convention

  Haidt, Jonathan

  Hakemulder, Jèmeljan

  Haldane, J.B.S.

  Haley, Alex

  Hallissy, Margaret

  Hamann, Johann

  Hamas

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hammond, Ray

  Hanawalt, Barbara

  Hannibal

  Hardin, Garrett

  Harding, Harry

  Harff, Barbara

  Harpending, Henry

  Harris, Judith

  Harris, Marvin

  Harrison, Ruth, Animal Machines

  Hartley, L. P.

  Haslam, Nick

  hate crimes

  Havel, Václav

  Hawkes, Kristen

  Hayden, Thomas

  Hayes, Brian

  Hayes, Catherine

  Hearst, Patty

  Heatherton, Todd

  hedonism, psychological

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

  Helsinki Accords (1975)

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Hemoclysm

  Hendrix, Jimi

  Henry I, King

  Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

  Henry V, king of England

  Henry VIII, king of England

  herd behavior; see also conformity; crowds, madness of; group processes; groupthink

  Herder, Johann

  herding hypothesis of honor cultures

  Herero people

  heresy

  heritability

  Herman, Arthur

  Herrmann, Benedikt

  Herrnstein, Richard

  Herzog, Hal

  Hezbollah

  Himmelfarb, Milton

  Hinckley, John

  Hinsley, F. H.

  Hirohito, emperor of Japan

  Hironaka, Ann

  Hirschi, Travis

  historical myopia

  history:

  biases in record

  “end of,”

  importance of individual in

  military, commemorative sites of

  past as foreign country

  patterns in

  as propaganda

  revisionist

  spin in

  study of

  unchronicled

  Hitchens, Christopher

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hoban, Jack

  Hobbes, Thomas

  and anarchy

  on causes of war

  and genocide

  influence of

  Leviathan

  on natural state

  and social contract

  Hobbesian trap

  Ho Chi Minh

  Hoffer, Eric

  Hoffman, Abbie

  Hoffman, Stanley

  Hofstadter, Douglas

  Hofstede, Geert

  Holiday, Billie

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Holocaust:

  and evil

  homosexuals eliminated in

  and ideology

  and Nazism

  survivor stories of

  see also genocide

  Holsti, Kalevi

  Homer, Iliad and Odyssey

  homicide rates:

  of aristocrats

  in Asia

  in Canada

  and domestic violence

  in England

  in Europe

  in hate crimes

  and justice system

  and kinship

  male-on-male

  in New England

  in nonstate societies

  as reliable index of violence

  in southern U.S.

  in U.S.

  war deaths vs.

  in western U.S.

  world

  Homo heidelbergensis

  Homo sapiens; see also human beings

  homosexuality:

  decriminalization of

  gay rights

  and the Holocaust

  oppression of

  sexual orientation

  tolerance of

  violence against

  Hong Kong, homicides in

  honor

  culture of

  dueling

  military codes of

  Hooke, Robert

  Horowitz, Donald

  Horton, Heather

  Howard, Catherine

  Howard, Michael

  Howard, Robert

  Hrdy, Sarah

  Hudson, Valerie

  Hughes, Geoffrey

  Hugo, Victor

  Huguenot Wars

  human beings:

  altricial

  brains of

  common ancestor with chimps

  multiparous

  nepostic

  polygenic character traits of

  polygynous

  in prehistory

  primate ancestors of

  sexually dimorphic

  sexual reproduction of

  violent tendencies of

  Human Genome Project

  humanism

  and Enlightenment

  humanitarian aid

  Humanitarian Revolution

  attempts to explain

  blood and soil

  capital punishment

  civilization and enlightenment

  and Civilizing Process

  cruel punishments

  despotism and political violence

  empathy and regard for human life

  Enlightenment humanism

  and major war

  reduction in use of force

  a
nd Rights Revolutions

  slavery

  superstitious killing

  human life, value placed on

  human nature:

  and conservatism

  constancy of

  motives of

  psychological history of

  theories of

  universal

  and violence

  see also human beings

  human rights:

  and capital punishment

  and corporal punishment of children

  and criminalization of homosexuality

  Helsinki Accords

  and Humanitarian Revolution

  vs. nationalism

  principle of

  and social contract

  Universal Declaration

  Human Rights Watch

  human sacrifice

  Human Security Report Project (HSRP)

  human trafficking

  human universals

  Hume, David

  humor

  Humphrey, Hubert H.

  Humphrey, Robert

  Hundred Years’ War

  Hungary

  Hunt, Lynn

  hunter-gatherers

  data sources for

  deaths from warfare

  rates of violence

  hunter-horticulturalists

  data sources for

  deaths from warfare

  rates of violence

  hunting

  Huntington, Samuel

  Hussein, Saddam

  Hutchins, Robert Maynard

  hydraulic theory

  hyperbolic discounting

  identity politics

  ideology

  Age of Ideology

  blood and soil

  Christian

  and cognitive dissonance reduction

  compartmentalization of

  and conformity

  decline of

  and enforcement

  and genocide

  introduction of concept

  militant

  and Moralization Gap

  Nazism

  and pluralistic ignorance

  and polarization

  and relational models

  and suicide terrorists

  IGOs (intergovernmental organizations)

  Incas

  inclusive fitness

  independence, of new nations; see also decolonization

  Index of Forbidden Books

  India:

  caste system in

  death toll in

  emergence of agriculture

  famine in

  female infanticide in

  human sacrifice in

  Muslim invaders of

  and nuclear capability

  and Pakistan

  socialism in

  suttee in

  terrorism in

  wars in

  Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (film)

  Indonesia

  Industrial Revolution

  inequality, economic, and violence

  infanticide

  and cultural norms

  in fairy tales

  female

  male

  taboo against

  triage theory

  “In Flanders Fields,”

  informalizing process

  information:

  and dominance

  and morality

  spread of

  and technology

  see also cosmopolitanism

  Innocent IV, Pope

  Innocent X, Pope

  Inquisition

  instrumental violence, see predatory violence

  integrative complexity

  intelligence:

  and cooperation

  and democracy

  and economic literacy

  general (g)

  heritabity of

  IQ tests

  and liberalism

  and reason

  rise in, see Flynn Effect

  and self-control

  and sophistication of political discourse

  and violence

  intercommunal conflict

  interest:

  compound

  and self-control

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  Intermale Aggression circuit; see also dominance

  International Rescue Committee (IRC)

  Interpol

  Inuit people

  IQ tests

  Iran

  Iran-Iraq War

  Iraq

  Al Qaeda in (AQI)

  civilian deaths in

  Kuwait invaded by

  nuclear capability of

  U.S.-led invasion of

  and USS Stark

  Iraq Body Count

  Ireland

  human sacrifice in

  immigrants from

  wars in

  irredentism

  Isaiah

  Islamic states:

  acts of barbarity

  autocratic

  civilization in

  conflicts in

  and genocide

  India invaded by

  liberalizing forces in

  and nuclear weapons

  population of

  punishment in

  and religious wars

  and Sharia law

  and slavery

 

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