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| Publisher | Oxford University Press, U.S.A. |
| ISBN 13 | 9780195119121 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195119126 |
| Book Subtitle | The Myth Of The Peaceful Savage |
| Book Description | The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization (an idea he denounces as "the pacification of the pa |
| Language | English |
| Author | Lawrence H. Keeley |
| Edition Number | Reprint Edition |
| Publication Date | 12-Oct-14 |
| Number of Pages | 272 |
War Before Civilization paperback english - 12-Oct-14
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