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 OUT SOCIETY-FOR THE BETTERWar! / 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 made humanity safer and richer. In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world. Stone Age people lived in small, feuding societies and stood a one-in-ten or even one-in-f…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-06250-5
- EAN: 9781250062505
- Produktnummer: 19373073
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 512 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.7 cm 539 g
- Gewicht: 539
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