Roman Empire and early Christendom
Honor in Europe and the early United States
2. Pacification process :
Violence in human ancestors
Rates of violence in state and nonstate societies
Civilization and its discontents.
European homicide decline
Explaining the European homicide decline
Violence around the world
Violence in these United States
Decivilization in the 1960s
Recivilization in the 1990s.
4. Humanitarian Revolution :
Superstitious killing: human sacrifice, witchcraft, and blood libel
Superstitious killing: violence against blasphemers, heretics, and apostates
Cruel and unusual punishments
Despotism and political violence
Whence the humanitarian revolution?
Rise of empathy and the regard for human life
Republic of letters and enlightenment humanism
Civilization and enlightenment
Statistics and narratives
Was the 20th century really the worst?
Statistics Of Deadly Quarrels, Part 1: Timing of wars
Statistics Of Deadly Quarrels, Part 2: Magnitude of wars
Trajectory of great power war
Trajectory of European war
Hobbesian background and the ages of dynasties and religions
Three currents in the age of sovereignty
Counter-enlightenment ideologies and the age of nationalism
Humanism and totalitarianism in the age of ideology
Long Peace: Attitudes and events
Is the long peace a nuclear peace?
Is the long peace a democratic peace?
Is the long peace a liberal peace?
Is the long peace a Kantian peace?
Trajectory of war in the rest of the world
Where angels fear to tread.
Civil rights and the decline of lynching and racial pogroms
Women's rights and the decline of rape and battering
Children's rights and the decline of infanticide, spanking, child abuse, and bullying
Gay rights, the decline of gay-bashing, and the decriminalization of homosexuality
Animal rights and the decline of cruelty of animals
Whence the rights revolutions?
From history to psychology.
Moralization gap and the myth of pure evil
Pure evil, inner demons, and the decline of violence.
Recent biological evolution?
Important but inconsistent
