The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

Philip Dwyer is Emeritus Professor of History and founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has written extensively on the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras and on the history of violence. His latest book, with Barbara Mann, Nigel Penn, and Lyndall Ryan, is Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age (2025).

Mark Micale is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Beyond the Unconscious; Discovering the History of Psychiatry; Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930; The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940; and Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness, and Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present (forthcoming).