War And Progress

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711030

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War! What Is It Good For? by Ian Morris Pdf

A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society—for the better. "War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says the famous song—but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer. In War! What Is It Good For?, the renowned historian and archaeologist Ian Morris tells the gruesome, gripping story of fifteen thousand years of war, going beyond the battles and brutality to reveal what war has really done to and for the world. Stone Age people lived in small, feuding societies and stood a one-in-ten or even one-in-five chance of dying violently. In the twentieth century, by contrast—despite two world wars, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—fewer than one person in a hundred died violently. The explanation: War, and war alone, has created bigger, more complex societies, ruled by governments that have stamped out internal violence. Strangely enough, killing has made the world safer, and the safety it has produced has allowed people to make the world richer too. War has been history's greatest paradox, but this searching study of fifteen thousand years of violence suggests that the next half century is going to be the most dangerous of all time. If we can survive it, the age-old dream of ending war may yet come to pass. But, Morris argues, only if we understand what war has been good for can we know where it will take us next.

Author : John Ulric Nef
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : War and civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080586097

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War and Human Progress by John Ulric Nef Pdf

Donated by Sydney Harris.

Author : John Ulric Nef
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : War and civilization
ISBN : UOM:39015019157422

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War and Human Progress by John Ulric Nef Pdf

Donated by Sydney Harris.

Author : Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616149512

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The Worth of War by Benjamin Ginsberg Pdf

Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies that are generally held to represent progress. These include rationality, technological and economic development, and liberal forms of government. Contrary to common perceptions that war is the height of irrationality, Ginsberg persuasively demonstrates that in fact it is the ultimate test of rationality. He points out that those societies best able to assess threats from enemies rationally and objectively are usually the survivors of warfare. History also clearly reveals the technological benefits that result from war—ranging from the sundial to nuclear power. And in regard to economics, preparation for war often spurs on economic development; by the same token, nations with economic clout in peacetime usually have a huge advantage in times of war. Finally, war and the threat of war have encouraged governments to become more congenial to the needs and wants of their citizens because of the increasing reliance of governments on their citizens’ full cooperation in times of war. However deplorable the realities of war are, the many fascinating examples and astute analysis in this thought-provoking book will make readers reconsider the unmistakable connection between war and progress.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039

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War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.

Author : Peter Dewey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317900146

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War and Progress by Peter Dewey Pdf

This is an account of how the daily lives of ordinary peoples were changed, profoundly and permanently, by these three momentous decades 1914-1945. Often depicted in negative terms Peter Dewey finds a much more positive pattern in the wealth of evidence he lays before us. His is a story of economic achievement, and the emergence of a new sense of social community in the nation, rather than a saga of disenchantment and decline.

Author : John Titcomb Sprague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048941780

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The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War by John Titcomb Sprague Pdf

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Paul T. McCartney
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807131148

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Power and Progress by Paul T. McCartney Pdf

In Power and Progress, Paul T. McCartney presents a provocative case study of the Spanish-American War, exposing newfound dimensions to the relationship between American nationalism and U.S. foreign policy. Two significant but distinct foreign-policy issues are at the center of McCartney's analysis: the declaration of war against Spain in 1898 and the annexation of the Philippine Islands as part of the war's peace treaty. According to McCartney, Americans were very explicitly and self-consciously expanding their nation's sense of mission in making these two foreign-policy decisions. They drew upon a cultural identity forged from racist, religious, and liberal-democratic characteristics to guide the United States into the uncharted waters of international prominence. What America did abroad they emphatically framed in terms of what they believed America to be. Foreign policy, McCartney argues, provided a concrete focus for this sense of mission on the world stage and played a marked role in shaping the contours and substance of American nationalism itself. Power and Progress provides the first intensive look at how the idea of American mission has influenced the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, lending fresh insight into a transformative moment in the development of both U.S. foreign policy and national identity. It contributes measurably to our understanding of the cultural sources of American foreign policy and thus serves as a partial corrective to studies that overemphasize economic motives.

Author : John U. Nef
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:465868810

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War and Human Progress by John U. Nef Pdf

Author : Tawny Eagle
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728354057

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The Third World War Is in Progress Now by Tawny Eagle Pdf

A story of dishonesty, intrigue and brutal manipulation showing how the superpowers manipulated the Coronavirus and how the opportunity was seized to fiercely attack the American and European Oil Industry, during the resultant short term glut of Oil that they caused. In parallel they manipulate the Oil supply and Governments with loans that all countries need, whilst advancing their long term aims of a worldwide empire but causing terrible damage on the way. Suddenly I realized that we are already in the third world war with many fronts open, but instead of geographical fronts they are dimensional ones. Non-military conflicts are the struggle for domination of energy source control, energy price control and manufacturing monopolization. In the shadows the communications and information domination with surveillance results in immense intrusion and mounting mistrust. Military conflicts between large powers, inside the less powerful countries, are played out by proxy causing catastrophic loss of life and destruction and in the background the Super Large Corporations who influence Governments directly at the highest level, get them to act in the interests of Super Large Corporations.

Author : Mark T. Berger,Heloise Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 041566117X

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War, Peace and Progress in the 21st Century by Mark T. Berger,Heloise Weber Pdf

This book brings together contributions that revisit the dynamics and complexities of the history of war and peace in relation to the pursuit of progress. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Emanuel Adler,Beverly Crawford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231513968

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Progress in Postwar International Relations by Emanuel Adler,Beverly Crawford Pdf

-- Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University

Author : John Mueller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843836

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The Stupidity of War by John Mueller Pdf

This innovative argument shows the consequences of increased aversion to international war for foreign and military policy.

Author : Gregory A. Daddis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199830718

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No Sure Victory by Gregory A. Daddis Pdf

Conventional wisdom holds that the US Army in Vietnam, thrust into an unconventional war where occupying terrain was a meaningless measure of success, depended on body counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Army officer and historian Gregory Daddis looks far deeper into the Army's techniques for measuring military success and presents a much more complicated-and disturbing-account of the American misadventure in Indochina. Daddis shows how the US Army, which confronted an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form of warfare, adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable, system of measurements and formulas to track the progress of military operations that ranged from pacification efforts to search-and-destroy missions. The Army's monthly "Measurement of Progress" reports covered innumerable aspects of the fighting in Vietnam-force ratios, Vietcong/North Vietnamese Army incidents, tactical air sorties, weapons losses, security of base areas and roads, population control, area control, and hamlet defenses. Concentrating more on data collection and less on data analysis, these indiscriminate attempts to gauge success may actually have hindered the army's ability to evaluate the true outcome of the fight at hand--a roadblock that Daddis believes significantly contributed to the many failures that American forces suffered in Vietnam. Filled with incisive analysis and rich historical detail, No Sure Victory is not only a valuable case study in unconventional warfare, but a cautionary tale that offers important perspectives on how to measure performance in current and future armed conflict. Given America's ongoing counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, No Sure Victory provides valuable historical perspective on how to measure--and mismeasure--military success.