War Violence And The Modern Condition
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War Violence And The Modern Condition
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Author : Bernd Hüppauf
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-11-05
War Violence And The Modern Condition written by Bernd Hüppauf and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modernity And War
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Author : Philip K. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Modernity And War written by Philip K. Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Air warfare categories.
Modernity and War explores and assesses the development of war in the modern period. The book examines the contradiction between the optimistic view of social progress in the West and the actual involvement of Western states in mass violence. The author explains the violence of the modern form of war by analysing cultural trends in Western states and their connections to racism, nationalism and narcissism. The text also explains how the practice of air warfare distances Western citizens from the consequences of contemporary military violence.
The Hidden Structure Of Violence
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Author : Marc Pilisuk
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2015-07-17
The Hidden Structure Of Violence written by Marc Pilisuk and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-17 with Political Science categories.
Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel by the arc of a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and they may leave behind a smoldering village or a starved child. The all-pervasiveness of violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the modern world. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jen Rountree demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to strengthen that order for the benefit of the powerful. The Hidden Structure of Violence marshals vast amounts of evidence to examine the costs of direct violence, including military preparedness and the social reverberations of war, alongside the costs of structural violence, expressed as poverty and chronic illness. It also documents the relatively small number of people and corporations responsible for facilitating the violent status quo, whether by setting the range of permissible discussion or benefiting directly as financiers and manufacturers. The result is a stunning indictment of our violent world and a powerful critique of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily basis, whether at the highest levels of the state or in the deepest recesses of the mind.
War And Modernity
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Author : Hans Joas
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2003-01-27
War And Modernity written by Hans Joas and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-27 with Social Science categories.
Written by one of Europe's leading social theorists, this book takes up the claims of modernity and confronts them with a stark reality: the ongoing proliferation of war. How can contemporary social and political thought come to terms with this apparent failure of modernity? Throughout the 20th century the global struggle of ideologies put paid to the dream that wars were somehow the relic of a bygone, unenlightened age. But now in the aftermath of the Cold War era, how are we to account for the persistence of war and state violence? Drawing on a wide range of material, from World War I and Vietnam to the Gulf War and the conflicts in the Balkans, Joas engages with current debates in the sociology and politics of war and develops his own distinctive line of argument concerning the role of warfare in modern societies. He aligns himself with figures such as Giddens and Mann in the attempt to establish a new and non-functionalist theory of social change. This compelling and timely study confronts one of the great paradoxes of our era, and Joas's book is a substantial contribution towards a new historico-sociological perspectiveon the twentieth century. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics, and will appeal to anyone who has puzzled over the persistence of modern war, and the limits of enlightenment as an historical force.
Just War And International Order
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Author : Nicholas J. Rengger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-04
Just War And International Order written by Nicholas J. Rengger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-04 with History categories.
Argues the just war tradition, rather than being a restraint on war, has expanded its scope, and criticises this trend.
Violence Against Prisoners Of War In The First World War
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Author : Heather Jones
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-02
Violence Against Prisoners Of War In The First World War written by Heather Jones and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with History categories.
First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War.
Civilians And Modern War
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Author : Daniel Rothbart
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-06
Civilians And Modern War written by Daniel Rothbart and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war’s tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology, state-sponsored militaries, global media, and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civilian noncombatant who lacks political power and decision-making capacity with regards to their own survival. Civilians and Modern War provides a critical overview of the plight of civilians in war, examining the political and normative underpinnings of the decisions, actions, policies, and practices of major sectors of war. The contributors seek to undermine the ‘tunnelling effect’ of the militaristic framework regarding the experiences of noncombatants. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, ethics, conflict resolution, and IR/Security Studies.
Making Sense Of Violence
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Author : Matthew D'Auria
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-25
Making Sense Of Violence written by Matthew D'Auria and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-25 with History categories.
This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war. Rejecting the assumption that violence is simply a denial of reason or, at best, a pathological form of collective sadism, this book considers it ‘a cultural act’ that needs to be understood as underpinned by a series of shared and accepted norms and values stemming from a society at a given moment of its history and shaped by its language. Traditional vocabulary and language seem inadequate to describe soldiers’ experience of modern warfare. The problem for writers is to depict and render intelligible a dramatically unprecedented reality through recourse to something familiar. For some historians and literary critics, the absurdity of the First World War has shaped our ironic and disenchanted reading of the entire twentieth century. Yet these ways of coping with the urge to communicate inexpressible feelings and emotions in most cases are not sufficient to overcome the incoherence of the sentiments felt and the events witnessed. The contributors attempt to address the questions and issues that are posed by the highly ambiguous views, texts, and representations examined in this volume. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’Histoire.
A Savage Order
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Author : Rachel Kleinfeld
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2018-11-06
A Savage Order written by Rachel Kleinfeld and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Social Science categories.
The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover. In this powerfully argued and urgent book, Rachel Kleinfeld examines why some democracies, including our own, are crippled by extreme violence and how they can regain security. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, mobsters, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens. Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help.
The Short Story And The First World War
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Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-31
The Short Story And The First World War written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with History categories.
Covering a range of topics, settings and styles, the book offers the first comprehensive study of short fiction from the First World War.