Is global violence on the decline? Scholars argue that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s proposal that violence has declined dramatically over time is flaw

"Originally published in French in 2016 by Seuil, France, as Historie de la violence"--Title page verso.

“An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America.”—Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of

Presents a history of violence in Europe and discusses the theory that violence has actually been in decline since the thirteenth century.

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is the first extensive analysis of large-scale vio