War! What is it good for? conflict and the progress of civilization from primates to robots
"A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society--for the better "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing," says the famous song--but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has ma...
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New York, NY
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Friend to the undertaker
- The wasteland? : war and peace in ancient Rome
- The barbarians strike back : the counterproductive way of war, A.D. 1-1415
- The five hundred years' war : Europe (almost) conquers the world, 1415-1914
- Storm of steel : the war for Europe, 1914-1980s
- Red in tooth and claw : why the chimps of Gombe went to war
- The last best hope of Earth : American empire, 1989-?