PDF-(BOOS)-War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our societyfor the betterWar What is it good for Absolutely nothing says the famous songbut archaeology history and biology show that war in fact has been good for something Surprising as it sounds war has made humanity safer and richerIn War What Is It Good For the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world Stone Age people lived in small feuding societies and stood a oneinten or even oneinfive chance of dying violently In the twentieth century by contrastdespite two world wars Hiroshima and the Holocaustfewer than one person in a hundred died violently The explanation War and war alone has created bigger more complex societies ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence Strangely enough killing has made the world safer and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer tooWar has been historys greatest paradox but this searching study of fifteen thousand years of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the most dangerous of all time If we can survive it the ageold dream of ending war may yet come to pass But Morris argues only if we understand what war has been good for can we know where it will take us next. 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