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Author : Daniel Moran,Arthur Waldron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521030250
This 2002 book discusses the history of the mass mobilization of society for the purposes of war.
Author : Daniel Moran,Arthur Waldron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521814324
This 2002 book discusses the history of the mass mobilization of society for the purposes of war.
Author : Mike Gonzalez,Houman Barekat
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745332897
Looking at a range of global historical experiences, Arms and the People examines the relationship between mass movements and military institutions. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won?Arms and the People explores the impact of profound social polarization on the internal cohesion of the state's "armed bodies of men" and on the contested loyalties of soldiers. The different contributors examine a series of historical moments in which a crisis in the military institution has reflected a deeper social crisis which has penetrated that institution and threatened to disable it.With a range of international contributors who have either studied or been directly involved in such social upheavals, Arms and the People is a pioneering contribution to the study of revolutionary change and will appeal to students and academics in history, politics, and sociology.
Author : Andrew Somerset
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771960298
After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture more radical, less tolerant, and more immovable in its beliefs, “as if [each] gun had come with a free, bonus ideological Family Pack [of political tenets], a ready-made identity.” To find the origins of this surprising shift, Somerset began mapping the cultural history of guns and gun ownership in North America. Arms: The Culture and Credo of Gun is the brilliant result. How were firearms transformed from tools used by pioneers into symbols of modern manhood? Why did the NRA’s focus shift from encouraging responsible gun use to lobbying against gun-safety laws? What is the relationship between gun ownership and racism in America? How have the film, television, and video game industries molded our perception of gun violence? When did the fear of gun seizures arise, and how has it been used to benefit arms manufacturers, lobbyists, and the far-right? Few ideas divide communities as much as those involving firearms, and fewer authors are able to tackle the subject with the same authority, humor, and intelligence. Written from the unique perspective of a gun lover who’s disgusted with what gun culture has become, Arms is destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476764528
Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all 39 of the Nobel Prize-winning author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. Reprint.
Author : William Broyles, Jr.
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292783393
Reviews of the Knopf edition: "A wonderful book—fresh and intelligent. Broyles's eye for Vietnam, then and now, is unerring." —Peter Jennings "[A] superbly written, often moving story of Broyles' journey back to the killing ground in Vietnam where he once served as a Marine lieutenant. A cool, clear meditation that stings the heart." —Kirkus Reviews "A first-rate piece of work, infused with an ideal American common decency and common sense." —Kurt Vonnegut "Exceptional and memorable." —Gay Talese
Author : Tom Smith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789205565
Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts’ powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers’ lives and the military institution itself.
Author : Andrew Feinstein
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780241144428
A gripping and urgent investigation into the secretive world of the global arms trade - from a former member of the African National Congress Revealing the corruption and the cover-ups at the heart of ex-President Jacob Zuma's South Africa Andrew Feinstein delves behind BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex. The Shadow World exposes both the formal government-backed trade in arms as well as the illicit deals and lays bare the shocking links between the two. 'Essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both the public and private spheres, and for anyone who believes that it is more important to invest in saving lives than in the machinery of death' Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'Andrew Feinstein has written an authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking and enraging' Arundhati Roy 'The nobility and justice of Feinstein's sentiments are indisputable. The arms trade is a loathsome commerce conducted by people who wear suits and occupy big boardroom tables, but should have trouble sleeping at night' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Remarkable and courageous . . . The Shadow World is a heroic book by an author who, in writing it, has put himself in the firing line' Iain Macwhirter 'Feinstein's book is a singularly powerful study, and deserves to be read by anyone who wants to see light shining on such a shadowy world' Independent
Author : A. Forrest,K. Hagemann,J. Rendall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230583290
The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars affected millions of people's lives across Europe and beyond. Yet the extent to which the constant warfare of the period 1792-1815 shaped everyday experience has been little studied. This volume of essays discusses the formative experience of these wars for men and women, as soldiers, citizens and civilians.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UOM:39015009359731
Author : Jeff Halper
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 074533430X
War Against the People focuses on Israel's unique role in international affairs, highlighting how it promotes a global system of militarism and domestic control – a form of "global Palestine." Jeff Halper investigates how Israel exports the weaponry and techniques of occupation. He shows how it uses the West Bank and Gaza as a "laboratory" for the development of these weapons, instruments of population control and models of permanent pacification. These are used not only to armies but internal security agencies and police forces as well. Halper locates Israel's system of pacification within the broader project of global "transcapital pacification." War Against the People provides a valuable window into the workings of pacification on a global level and the latest in military and counter-insurgency doctrine, outlining critical aspects of global politics that activists often miss in their struggle for global justice.
Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0521558794
Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front
Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300253481
“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.
Author : Sir John Hackett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : OCLC:53841357
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590637782