| Description |
xi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
General Introduction: War and the Institution of War -- 1. The Warring State in China as Institution and Idea / Mark Edward Lewis -- 2. Payback and Ritual in War: New Guinea / Gilbert Lewis -- 3. Communal Violence in Northern Ghana: Unaccepted War / Susan Drucker-Brown -- 4. Nationalist Imaginings of War in Cyprus / Yiannis Papadakis -- 5. Families in Conflict: Pervasive Violence in Northern Ireland / Dominic Murray -- 6. A Very Modern War: Terror and Territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina / Cornelia Sorabji -- 7. War and Peace: The Socialization of Children / Sharon Smith and Linda Siegel -- 8. On the Nature of War and the Nature of Militarism / Hylke Tromp -- 9. The Knights of the Sky and the Myth of the War Experience / George Mosse -- 10. The Role of the Mass Media in Modern Wars / Jo Groebel -- 11. Patriotism and Nationalism: Two Components of National Identity with Different Implications for War and Peace / Seymour Feshbach |
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12. War and Religion: An Unholy Alliance? / Helen Watson -- 13. Modern Japan and War: A Problem with a Past / Joseph McDermott -- 14. Economics and Conflict / Robert Neild -- 15. Lack of Parliamentary Accountability and its Effect on Arms Build-Up / Scilla Elworthy -- 16. The Arms Trade / Michael Brzoska |
| Summary |
History is often presented in terms of a series of conquests and conflicts, a perpetual cycle of war and peace. As a result, there is rarely a focus on the socio-cultural dynamics and institutional mechanisms which maintain patterns of violence. This book examines the important questions which have often been ignored: how does war come to be seen as an acceptable way of solving conflict? How do combatants understand their roles in different situations of violence? What factors complicate the commonplace view that war is 'a cruel necessity'? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-251) and index |
| Subject |
Defense industries.
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War and society.
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War.
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| Author |
Hinde, Robert A.
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Watson, Helen.
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| LC no. |
94060184 |
| ISBN |
1850438242 |
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