Constant Battles
Why We Fight
Published on 1. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-312-31090-5 (ISBN)
Description
LeBlanc brilliantly argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history. He uncovers a six-million-year-old equation of population growth, resource stress, and warfare as he surveys the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records from cultures around the world. This distinguished book explores the implications of his findings by considering if humans are doomed by genetic heritage to fight each other, and arrives at a hopeful conclusion: by understanding why humans fought in the past, modern man, with technology and awareness, can avoid warfare in the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
30 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-31090-5 (9780312310905)
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Persons
Steven A. LeBlanc, an archaeologist at Harvard, is the director of collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He is the author of Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest.