The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (192 page)

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coercive
 
and conquest
 
emergence of
 
genocides by
 
good
 
and justice system
 
legitimate use of violence by
 
in medieval times
 
and official discrimination
 
as technology
 
trust in
 
violence controlled by
 
violence perpetrated by
 
world
 
see also
anarchy; anocracy; autocracy; democracy; Leviathan; monarchy
 
Grafton, Anthony
 
Grand Illusion
(film)
 
Graves, Robert
 
Gray, Heather
 
Gray, John
 
Gray, Kurt
 
Great Britain,
see
Britain/United Kingdom; England; Scotland; Wales
 
Great Dictator, The
(film)
 
great powers
 
aggrandizement of
 
aspiring
 
in Cold War
 
interstate wars of
 
modern international order
 
and peacekeeping
 
and Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 
Greece, ancient
 
Athenian democracy
 
human sacrifice in
 
infanticide in
 
slavery in
 
Greece, modern
 
homicides in
 
Greene, Joshua
 
Greenfield, Liah
 
Green movement
 
Gregory I, Pope
 
Gregory VII, Pope
 
Grenada
 
Grey, Lady Jane
 
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
 
Groebner, Valentin
 
Grotius, Hugo
 
group processes;
see also
conformity; crowds, madness of; groupthink
 
groupthink
 
Guardian Angels
 
Guatemala
 
guerrillas
 
Guevara, Che
 
guillotine
 
guilt
 
Gurr, Ted Robert
 
Gutenberg, Johannes
 
Guthrie, Arlo
 
gynecide
 
 
Habsburg dynasty
 
Hacker, Andrew
 
Hagen, Edward
 
Hague Convention
 
Haidt, Jonathan
 
Hakemulder, Jèmeljan
 
Haldane, J.B.S.
 
Haley, Alex
 
Hallissy, Margaret
 
Hamann, Johann
 
Hamas
 
Hamilton, Alexander
 
Hammond, Ray
 
Hanawalt, Barbara
 
Hannibal
 
Hardin, Garrett
 
Harding, Harry
 
Harff, Barbara
 
Harpending, Henry
 
Harris, Judith
 
Harris, Marvin
 
Harrison, Ruth,
Animal Machines
 
Hartley, L. P.
 
Haslam, Nick
 
hate crimes
 
Havel, Václav
 
Hawkes, Kristen
 
Hayden, Thomas
 
Hayes, Brian
 
Hayes, Catherine
 
Hearst, Patty
 
Heatherton, Todd
 
hedonism, psychological
 
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
 
Helsinki Accords (1975)
 
Hemingway, Ernest
 
Hemoclysm
 
Hendrix, Jimi
 
Henry I, King
 
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
 
Henry V, king of England
 
Henry VIII, king of England
 
herd behavior;
see also
conformity; crowds, madness of; group processes; groupthink
 
Herder, Johann
 
herding hypothesis of honor cultures
 
Herero people
 
heresy
 
heritability
 
Herman, Arthur
 
Herrmann, Benedikt
 
Herrnstein, Richard
 
Herzog, Hal
 
Hezbollah
 
Himmelfarb, Milton
 
Hinckley, John
 
Hinsley, F. H.
 
Hirohito, emperor of Japan
 
Hironaka, Ann
 
Hirschi, Travis
 
historical myopia
 
history:
 
biases in record
 
“end of,”
 
importance of individual in
 
military, commemorative sites of
 
past as foreign country
 
patterns in
 
as propaganda
 
revisionist
 
spin in
 
study of
 
unchronicled
 
Hitchens, Christopher
 
Hitler, Adolf
 
Hoban, Jack
 
Hobbes, Thomas
 
and anarchy
 
on causes of war
 
and genocide
 
influence of
 
Leviathan
 
on natural state
 
and social contract
 
Hobbesian trap
 
Ho Chi Minh
 
Hoffer, Eric
 
Hoffman, Abbie
 
Hoffman, Stanley
 
Hofstadter, Douglas
 
Hofstede, Geert
 
Holiday, Billie
 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
 
Holocaust:
 
and evil
 
homosexuals eliminated in
 
and ideology
 
and Nazism
 
survivor stories of
 
see also
genocide
 
Holsti, Kalevi
 
Homer,
Iliad
and
Odyssey
 
homicide rates:
 
of aristocrats
 
in Asia
 
in Canada
 
and domestic violence
 
in England
 
in Europe
 
in hate crimes
 
and justice system
 
and kinship
 
male-on-male
 
in New England
 
in nonstate societies
 
as reliable index of violence
 
in southern U.S.
 
in U.S.
 
war deaths vs.
 
in western U.S.
 
world
 
Homo heidelbergensis
 
Homo sapiens
;
see also
human beings
 
homosexuality:
 
decriminalization of
 
gay rights
 
and the Holocaust
 
oppression of
 
sexual orientation
 
tolerance of
 
violence against
 
Hong Kong, homicides in
 
honor
 
culture of
 
dueling
 
military codes of
 
Hooke, Robert
 
Horowitz, Donald
 
Horton, Heather
 
Howard, Catherine
 
Howard, Michael
 
Howard, Robert
 
Hrdy, Sarah
 
Hudson, Valerie
 
Hughes, Geoffrey
 
Hugo, Victor
 
Huguenot Wars
 
human beings:
 
altricial
 
brains of
 
common ancestor with chimps
 
multiparous
 
nepostic
 
polygenic character traits of
 
polygynous
 
in prehistory
 
primate ancestors of
 
sexually dimorphic
 
sexual reproduction of
 
violent tendencies of
 
Human Genome Project
 
humanism
 
and Enlightenment
 
humanitarian aid
 
Humanitarian Revolution
 
attempts to explain
 
blood and soil
 
capital punishment
 
civilization and enlightenment
 
and Civilizing Process
 
cruel punishments
 
despotism and political violence
 
empathy and regard for human life
 
Enlightenment humanism
 
and major war
 
reduction in use of force
 
and Rights Revolutions

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