The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (201 page)

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in military revolution
 
nuclear
 
in schools
 
technology of
 
Weber, Max
 
Weber’s Law
 
Wegner, Daniel
 
Weinberg, Alvin
 
Wellington, Duke of
 
Wells, H. G.
 
West, Rebecca
 
Western society:
 
declines in violence compared with societies
 
hostility to accomplishments
 
humanistic movements in non-Western societies
 
see also
modernity
 
western U.S.
 
Westphalia, Peace of
 
White, Matthew
 
Who, The
 
Wiesel, Elie
 
Wiessner, Polly
 
WikiLeaks
 
Wilde, Oscar
 
Wilkinson, Deanna
 
Willard, Dan
 
Willer, Robb
 
Williamson, Laila
 
Willkie, Wendell
 
Wilson, James Q.
 
Wilson, Margo
 
Wilson, Woodrow
 
Wimer, Christopher
 
Winfrey, Oprah
 
Wirth, Christian
 
witchcraft
 
Witness
(film)
 
Wollstonecraft, Mary
 
Wolpert, Daniel
 
women:
 
and abortion
 
Amazons
 
in American West
 
antiwar views of
 
attitudes toward
 
competition for
 
and domestic violence
 
feminism
 
feminization
 
genital mutilation of
 
in harems
 
and Islam
 
as leaders
 
male control of
 
as pacifying force
 
peace activists
 
postpartum depression
 
as property
 
rape of,
see
rape
 
rights of
 
self-defense for
 
“Take Back the Night,”
 
torture of
 
violence against
 
violence by
 
violence over;
see also
sexual jealousy
 
World Bank
 
world government
 
World Health Organization (WHO)
 
World War I
 
and antiwar views
 
and influenza pandemic
 
as literary war
 
and nationalism
 
onset of
 
poison gas in
 
and World War II
 
World War II
 
causes of
 
destructiveness of
 
and ethnic cleansing
 
London Blitz in
 
and Pearl Harbor
 
and poison gas
 
Wotman, Sara
 
Wouters, Cas
 
Wrangham, Richard
 
Wright, Quincy
 
Wright, Robert
 
 
Xhosa people
 
 
Yamaguchi, Tsutomu
 
Yanomamö people
 
Yates, Andrea
 
Yemen
 
Young, Liane
 
Young, Maxwell
 
Younger, Stephen
 
young men:
 
African American
 
aggression of
 
in American West
 
in bachelor cults
 
and code of honor
 
and crime
 
in criminal gangs
 
and dominance
 
and drug culture
 
homicides by
 
in prison
 
socialization of
 
terrorists
 
tribal elders defied by
 
Yugoslavia
 
 
Zacher, Mark
 
Zambia
 
Zebrowitz, Leslie
 
Zelizer, Viviana
 
zero-sum games
 
Zimbardo, Philip
 
Zimring, Franklin
 
Zipf, G. K.
 
Źiźek, Slavoj
 
Zola, Émile
 
ALSO BY STEVEN PINKER
 
Language Learnability and Language Development
 
Learnability and Cognition
 
The Language Instinct
 
How the Mind Works
 
Words and Rules
 
The Blank Slate
 
The Stuff of Thought
 
 
EDITED BY STEVEN PINKER
 
Visual Cognition
 
Connections and Symbols
(with Jacques Mehler)
 
Lexical and Conceptual Semantics
(with Beth Levin)
 
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004

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