WAR BEFORE CIVILIZATION

"Offering abundant supporting evidence, he concludes that the idea of the Noble Savage is essentially nonsense, that in fact primitive warfare was more brutal and intense and probably less ritualized than its civilized counterpart....The evidence that Mr. Keeley marshals is vivid, varied and often complex....the book's most dramatic payoff is its concluding explanation for the recent 'pacification of the past' by scholars....what is boils down to is that revulsion with the excesses of World War II has led to a loss of faith in progress and Western civilization."Keeley, Lawrence H. is the author of 'WAR BEFORE CIVILIZATION', published 1997 under ISBN 9780195119121 and ISBN 0195119126.