3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Rousseau's 1755 Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men — arguing that natural humans are innocent and equal, that the invention of private property created inequality, and that civilization is the history of compounding injustice built on this original theft.
Robert Greene's 2018 synthesis of historical psychology — 18 laws covering envy, grandiosity, shortsightedness, gender rigidity, and other aspects of human nature drawn from historical examples — his most comprehensive work.
Robert Wright's 1994 introduction to evolutionary psychology — using Charles Darwin's life as a case study — the most widely read popular account of evolutionary psychology and its implications for human behavior.