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Zusatztext A towering and triumphant achievement... acute! scholarly! and wide-ranging: it is certainly one of the most important works on the subject written since 1945. Gat is at the top of his brilliant form! linking a variety of disciplines in a rich and comprehensive study of this most pertinent of issues. Informationen zum Autor Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely in the field of military strategy and thought, including A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War, also published by Oxford University Press, and has taught and lectured at Freiburg, Oxford, Yale, Ohio State, and Georgetown universities. Klappentext In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Warfare in the First Two Million Years: Environment, Genes, and Culture 1: Introduction: The Human 'State of Nature' 2: Peaceful or War-like: Did Hunter-Gatherers Fight? 3: Why Fighting? The Evolutionary Perspective 4: Motivation: Food and Sex 5: Motivation: the Web of Desire 6: 'Primitive Warfare': How Was It Done? 7: Conclusion: Fighting in the Evolutionary State of Nature Part 2: Agriculture, Civilization, and War 8: Introduction: Evolving Cultural Complexity 9: Tribal Warfare in Agraria and Pastoralia 10: Armed Force in the Emergence of the State 11: The Eurasian Spearhead: East, West, and the Steppe 12: Conclusion: War, the Leviathan, and the Pleasures and Miseries of Civilization Part 3: Modernity: the Dual Face of Janus 13: Introduction: the Explosion of Wealth and Power 14: Guns and Markets: the New European States and a Global World 15: Unbound and Bound Prometheus: Machine Age War 16: Affluent Liberal Democracies, Ultimate Weapons, and the World 17: Conclusion: Unravelling the Riddle of War Endnotes Index ...
