The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (195 page)

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MacDonald, Heather
 
Mack, Andrew
 
McKinley, William
 
McLuhan, Marshall
 
McNamara, Robert S.
 
McVeigh, Timothy
 
Macy, Michael
 
Madison, James
 
Maine, Henry
 
Malawi
 
Malaysia
 
males,
see
men; young men
 
Malleus Maleficarum
 
Malloy, Desmond
 
Malthus, Thomas
 
Manchester, William
 
Mandela, Nelson
 
Mann, Thomas
 
manners,
see
etiquette
 
Mannix, Daniel
 
Manson, Charles
 
MAO-A
 
Maori people
 
Mao Zedong
 
Mar, Raymond
 
Marcuse, Herbert
 
mariticide
 
marriage
 
and counterculture
 
and divorce
 
and male domestication
 
rape in
 
violence in
 
martial culture and values
 
martyrdom;
see also
suicide terrorism
 
Marx, Karl
 
Marx Brothers
 
Marxism
 
Mary, queen of England
 
Maryland, homicides in
 
Mary Queen of Scots
 
Masai people
 
M*A*S*H
(TV)
 
masochism
 
Mather, Cotton
 
Mather, Increase
 
matrilocal societies
 
Matthew Effect
 
Mattingly, Garrett
 
Maupassant, Guy de
 
Mauritania, slavery abolished in
 
Mbuti people
 
Mead, Margaret
 
media:
 
and animal rights
 
antiwar views in
 
and counterculture
 
influence of
 
and information
 
pessimism in
 
political ads in
 
and popular culture
 
and racism
 
rape depicted in
 
rock music
 
and terrorism
 
totalitarian control of
 
transistor radios
 
violent images in
 
medical care
 
Medieval Housebook, The
 
Medin, Douglas
 
Medvedev, Dmitry
 
Meeropol, Abel
 
Melville, Herman
 
men:
 
alpha males
 
“cads vs. dads,”
 
and domestic violence
 
fatherless children
 
and feminism
 
and MAO-A
 
and monogamy
 
and racism
 
and rape
 
serial killers
 
and sexual sadism
 
and testosterone
 
young,
see
young men
 
Menelaus, King
 
Menschenfreund, Yaki
 
mentalizing;
see also
empathy; theory of mind
 
Mercier, Charles
 
Mesoamerican civilizations
 
Metcalfe, Janet
 
Mexico
 
Michel, Jean-Baptiste
 
Middle Ages:
 
children punished in
 
economic revolution in
 
Elias on
 
etiquette books
 
homicides in
 
infanticide in
 
justice systems in
 
knights in
 
sexuality in
 
slavery in
 
torture in
 
Tuchman on
 
warfare in
 
witch hunts in
 
Middle East:
 
human rights devalued in
 
legal discrimination in
 
national borders in
 
peace efforts in
 
slavery in
 
wars in
 
Midianites
 
midwestern U.S., homicides in
 
Milgram, Stanley
 
militarized interstate disputes
 
military conscription
 
military horizon
 
military personnel,
see
armed forces
 
military revolution
 
military symbolism,
see
martial culture and values
 
militias
 
Mill, John Stuart
 
Million Man March
 
Milner, Larry
 
Milner, Peter
 
Milošević, Slobodan
 
Milton, John
 
Min, Anchee
 
mirror neurons
 
Mischel, Walter
 
Moabites
 
Moby-Dick
 
modernity
 
Moffitt, Terri
 
Mokkeddem, Malike
 
Moltke, Helmuth von
 
monarchy
 
Age of Dynasties
 
and filicide
 
hereditary
 
regicide
 
Mondeville, Henri de,
Chirurgia
 
Mongols
 
monism
 
monkeys
 
Monkkonen, Eric
 
monogamy;
see also
marriage
 
Monroe, James
 
Montagu, Mary Wortley
 
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
 
Montenegrin tribes
 
Monterey Pop Festival
 
Montesinos, Father Antonio de
 
Montesquieu, Baron de la
 
Montreal
 
Moon, Keith
 
moral disengagement
 
morality
 
compartmentalization of
 
cultural differences in
 
Golden Rule
 
historical direction of
 
and information
 
and law
 
norms of
 
punishable infractions of
 
relational models and
 
standards of
 
themes of
 
universalized
 
and violence
 
Moralization Gap
 
moral psychology;
see also
morality; moral sense
 
moral sense:
 
and fiction
 
as force for evil
 
introduction of concept
 
of people in earlier times
 
and reason
 
see also
morality; moral psychology
 
More, Thomas
 
Morgenthau, Hans
 
Mormon church
 
Moro, Aldo
 
Moses
 
Mossadegh, Mohammad
 
Mosse, George
 
Mother Goose nursery rhymes
 
mountainous terrain
 
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
 
Moyo, Dambisa
 
Mozambique
 
Mozi (Chinese philosopher)
 
Mueller, John
 
Muhammad
 
Muhammad, John
 
Muppets
 
Murray, Charles
 
museums
 
Mussolini, Benito
 
mutualism
 
mutually assured destruction (MAD)
 
Muyart de Vouglans, Pierre-François
 
myopia, historical,
see
historical myopia
 
myopic discounting
 
Myrmidons
 
 
Nafisi, Azar
 
NAFTA
 
Napier, Charles
 
Napoleon Bonaparte
 
Napoleonic Wars
 
narcissistic personality disorder
 
Nash, George
 
Nation, Carrie
 
nation,
use of term
 
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
 
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism
 
National Counterterrorism Center
 
National Crime Victimization Survey
 
nationalism:
 
Age of Nationalism
 
blood and soil
 
and decolonization
 
and dominance
 
and genocide
 
and liberalism
 
militant

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