War! What is it good for? : conflict and the progress of civilization from primates to robots
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Published
[U.S.] : Tantor Audio, 2014.
Edition
Unabriged edition.
Physical Desc
14 CDs (16 hrs. 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Morro Bay Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
303.66
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303.66
1 available
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Published
[U.S.] : Tantor Audio, 2014.
Format
Book on CD
Edition
Unabriged edition.
Language
English
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Compact disc.
Participants/Performers
Read by Derek Perkins.
Description
"In 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 one-in-ten or even one-in-five chance of dying violently. In the twentieth century, by contrast?despite two world wars, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust?fewer 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 too..." -- from publisher.
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