Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon. He is the general editor of the four volume Cambridge World History of Violence (2020), and co-editor of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars (2021, with Michael Broers). He is currently engaged in writing a global history of violence, as well as a history of iconoclasm.
Violence: A Very Short Introduction contains some compelling arguments worth noting. * Madeleine K. Meehan and Todd K. Shackelford, Evolutionary Psychological Science * This straightforward, accessible introduction examines the different ways that scholars have understood and classified violence... This short introduction comes with an annotated bibliography that readers can consult to learn more. As a resource it is most useful for those who are beginning to build their knowledge of violence and its social consequences. * Choice *