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Book Synopsis Origins of the Warfare State by : Carl Boggs
Download or read book Origins of the Warfare State written by Carl Boggs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the "warfare state" in terms of a broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies: permanent war economy, national security-state, global expansion of military bases, merger of state, corporate, and military power, an imperial presidency, the nuclear establishment, and superpower ambitions. Carl Boggs makes the argument that the "Good War" led to an authoritarian system that has expanded throughout the post-war decades, undermining liberal-democratic institutions and values in the process. He goes on to suggest that current American electoral politics show no sign of rolling back the warfare state and in fact, may push it to a new threshold bordering on American fascism.
Book Synopsis War and the Rise of the State by : Bruce D. Porter
Download or read book War and the Rise of the State written by Bruce D. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a sweeping study of the West over the last 500 years, Bruce Porter shows the astonishing range of warfare's modernizing effects on states. Warfare unifies, rallies, and bureaucratizes both states and their populaces; warfare triggers nationalism, reform movements, and revolutions. More positively, through its inevitable mobilization of citizenry, war has been a contributing cause of virtually all major social movements and even democracy. Porter examines major civil wars as well as international conflicts, showing how they served as catalysts for the New Monorachies, absolutist states, nation-states, totalitarian states, and contemporary industrial and post-industrial states. Finishing with an examination of the impact on the American state of the Civil War, the two World Wars, and the Cold War, Porter reveals our own paradox: pro-military conservatives denounce big government, forgetting that military might presupposes political power; anti-military liberals embraces to the power of the state to accomplish social ends while hesitating to acknowledge the military origins of that power."--The dust-jacket flaps.
Download or read book Warfare State written by James T. Sparrow and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare State shows how the federal government, in the course of World War II, vastly expanded its influence over American society. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, income taxation and ownership of the national debt in the form of war bonds, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves as personally connected to the battle front.
Book Synopsis War and the Rise of the State by : Bruce D. Porter
Download or read book War and the Rise of the State written by Bruce D. Porter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties, but also the ability of local communities and private associates to challenge the centralization of authority. Porter’s originality lies in his thesis that war, breaking down barriers of class, gender, ethnicity, and ideology, also contributes to meritocracy, mobility, and, above all, democratization. Porter also posits the emergence of the “Scientific Warfare State,” a political system in which advanced technology would render obsolete mass participation in war. This provocative study merits wide circulation and serious discussion.”
Book Synopsis The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War by : Kaeten Mistry
Download or read book The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War written by Kaeten Mistry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international history of the origins of 'cold war' in postwar Europe examines the complex relationship between the United States and Italy.
Book Synopsis The Origins of Western Warfare by : Doyne Dawson
Download or read book The Origins of Western Warfare written by Doyne Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the source of the uniquely Western way of war, the persistent militarism that has made Europe the site of bloodshed throughout history and secured the dominance of the West over the rest of the world? The answer, Doyne Dawson persuasively argues in this groundbreaking new book, is to be found in the very bedrock of Western civilization: anc
Book Synopsis The Origins of the War of 1914 by : Luigi Albertini
Download or read book The Origins of the War of 1914 written by Luigi Albertini and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic because of its comprehensive treatment of the subject, Albertini's book has been out of print for half a century. Beginning with the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Albertini traces the pattern of events that led Europe to the greatest cataclysm ever faced.
Book Synopsis Economic History of Warfare and State Formation by : Jari Eloranta
Download or read book Economic History of Warfare and State Formation written by Jari Eloranta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.
Book Synopsis The Origins of War by : Matthew A. Shadle
Download or read book The Origins of War written by Matthew A. Shadle and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate rages within the Catholic Church about the ethics of war and peace, but the simple question of why wars begin is too often neglected. Catholics’ assumptions about the causes of conflict are almost always drawn uncritically from international relations theory—a field dominated by liberalism, realism, and Marxism—which is not always consistent with Catholic theology. In The Origins of War, Matthew A. Shadle examines several sources to better understand why war happens. His retrieval of biblical literature and the teachings of figures from church tradition sets the course for the book. Shadle then explores the growing awareness of historical consciousness within the Catholic tradition—the way beliefs and actions are shaped by time, place, and culture. He examines the work of contemporary Catholic thinkers like Pope John Paul II, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, Dorothy Day, Brian Hehir, and George Weigel. In the constructive part of the book, Shadle analyzes the movement within international relations theory known as constructivism—which proposes that war is largely governed by a set of socially constructed and cultural influences. Constructivism, Shadle claims, presents a way of interpreting international politics that is highly amenable to a Catholic worldview and can provide a new direction for the Christian vocation of peacemaking.
Book Synopsis Vietnam and the United States by : Gary R. Hess
Download or read book Vietnam and the United States written by Gary R. Hess and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins and legacy of the Vietnam War and its impact on the United States.
Book Synopsis The Origins of the Korean War by : Peter Lowe
Download or read book The Origins of the Korean War written by Peter Lowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impressive Second Edition of this standard study incorporates important new evidence on the origins of the war from Chinese and Russian archives. It reveals that Stalin encouraged the attack on South Korea, but also confirms that the original initiative came from North Korea. Peter Lowe has also written an extended conclusion with a discussion of the Koreas in the late 1990s, and the challenges involved in securing their reunification.
Book Synopsis The Mexican War; a History of Its Origin, and a Detailed Account of the Victories which Terminiated in the Surrender of the Capital; with the Official Despatches of the Generals by : Edward Deering Mansfield
Download or read book The Mexican War; a History of Its Origin, and a Detailed Account of the Victories which Terminiated in the Surrender of the Capital; with the Official Despatches of the Generals written by Edward Deering Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Way of War by : Russell F. Weigley
Download or read book The American Way of War written by Russell F. Weigley and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." —History "A particularly timely account." —Kansas City Times "It reads easily but is not a popularized history . . . nor does the book become a history of battles. . . . Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." —Perspective
Book Synopsis Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. 1888 by : Justin Winsor
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. 1888 written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of America, 1775-1782: their political struggles and relations with Europe by : Justin Winsor
Download or read book Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of America, 1775-1782: their political struggles and relations with Europe written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 by : John Lewis Gaddis
Download or read book The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 written by John Lewis Gaddis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the many other forces--domestic politics, bureaucratic inertia, quirks of personality, and perceptions of Soviet intentions--that influenced key decision makers in Washington.
Book Synopsis A School History of the United States by : David B. Scott
Download or read book A School History of the United States written by David B. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
