War in Human Civilization

ISBN: 9780199236633 出版年：2006 页码：839 Gat, Azar Oxford University Press

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