tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200177861013445343.post5118655284705319079..comments2023-09-14T01:03:30.922+01:00Comments on The Thirsty Gargoyle: Ending Violence: A Deluded FantasyThe Thirsty Gargoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07555762505933950270noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200177861013445343.post-41788997891360887402011-11-24T16:49:29.998+00:002011-11-24T16:49:29.998+00:00We haven't got more kind. We've just got m...<i><br />We haven't got more kind. We've just got more squeamish. </i><br /><br />THIS. I haven't read the book yet, so I don't think it's fair for me to critique it too harshly, but it struck me that Pinker might have been right about the timing, but wrong about what was actually changing.<br /><br />From historians such as Amanda Vickery, it seems that accompanying the laBiscuitnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07085674629106780182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200177861013445343.post-49193295587685317152011-09-14T01:13:37.891+01:002011-09-14T01:13:37.891+01:00you might be interested by the book "The Firs...you might be interested by the book "The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It" by D.Bell.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/review/R25KOV77OVPZJ1/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R25KOV77OVPZJ1<br /><br />Argues along similar lines as you use. It discusses the impact of the enlightenment and advances the idea that in earlier times war was just considered a courtneynoreply@blogger.com