Fry, Douglas P.
Beyond War : The Human Potential for Peace - New York Oxford University Press 2007 - xviii,331 Pages 22x14 cm HB
Include Note and Index
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-ga.
9780195309485
Peace--Social aspects
War
Warfare, Prehistoric
Ethnology
303.66
Beyond War : The Human Potential for Peace - New York Oxford University Press 2007 - xviii,331 Pages 22x14 cm HB
Include Note and Index
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-ga.
9780195309485
Peace--Social aspects
War
Warfare, Prehistoric
Ethnology
303.66