Search Results - "militarism"

Dangerous sanctuaries : refugee camps, civil war, and the dilemmas of humanitarian aid / by Lischer, Sarah Kenyon, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Refugee crises as catalysts of conflict -- Political incentives for the spread of civil war -- Afghan refugees : catalysts of conflict for three decades -- From refugees to regional war in central Africa -- Demilitarizing a refugee army : Bosnian Muslim renegade refugees -- Collateral damage : the risks of humanitarian responses to militarized refugee crises.…”
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Mediterranean anarchy, interstate war, and the rise of Rome by Eckstein, Arthur M.

Table of Contents: “…Political science and Roman history -- Realist paradigms of interstate behavior -- The anarchic structure of interstate relations in classical Greece -- The anarchic structure of interstate relations in the Hellenistic Age -- Terrores multi : the rivals of Rome for power in the western Mediterranean -- Rome and Roman militarism within the anarchic interstate system -- Roman exceptionalism and nonexceptionalism.…”
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Outer space : weapons, diplomacy and security /

Table of Contents: “…Features of the outer space environment / Petr Topychkanov -- The peaceful and military development of space from a historical perspective / Valery Babintsev -- Space weapons programs / Vladimir Dvorkin -- The lessons of negotiations on the non-militarization of space / Viktor Mizin -- Codes of conduct for outer space / Sergey Oznobishchev -- Preventing an arms race in space / Alexei Arbatov.…”
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Outer space : weapons, diplomacy and security /

Table of Contents: “…Features of the outer space environment / Petr Topychkanov -- The peaceful and military development of space from a historical perspective / Valery Babintsev -- Space weapons programs / Vladimir Dvorkin -- The lessons of negotiations on the non-militarization of space / Viktor Mizin -- Codes of conduct for outer space / Sergey Oznobishchev -- Preventing an arms race in space / Alexei Arbatov.…”
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Germany and the causes of the First World War by Hewitson, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Historiography from Fischer to Förster -- The economics of war : industrialists, financiers and landowners -- Nationalism and images of the enemy -- The politics of war : parties, the press and public opinion -- Militarism and representations of conflict -- Strategies of war : the army and the navy -- Imperialism and conceptions of diplomatic relations -- Diplomacy and war : Chancellor, Kaiser and Foreign Office -- The July crisis : brinkmanship and war -- Germany and the question of guilt.…”
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Germany and the causes of the First World War by Hewitson, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Historiography from Fischer to Förster -- The economics of war : industrialists, financiers and landowners -- Nationalism and images of the enemy -- The politics of war : parties, the press and public opinion -- Militarism and representations of conflict -- Strategies of war : the army and the navy -- Imperialism and conceptions of diplomatic relations -- Diplomacy and war : Chancellor, Kaiser and Foreign Office -- The July crisis : brinkmanship and war -- Germany and the question of guilt.…”
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Automotive prosthetic : technological mediation and the car in conceptual art / by Terranova, Charissa N.

Table of Contents: “…Conceptual car art: rethinking conceptualism through technology -- Mobile perception and the automotive prosthetic: photoconceptualism, the car, and urban space -- The nows of the automotive prosthetic: moving images, time, and the car -- Communication space: automotive urbanism in Dan Graham's work -- Hummer: the cultural militarism of art based on the SUV -- Richard Prince: the fetish and automotive maleficium -- Conclusion: the "freedom" of automotive existence.…”
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Automotive prosthetic : technological mediation and the car in conceptual art / by Terranova, Charissa N.

Table of Contents: “…Conceptual car art: rethinking conceptualism through technology -- Mobile perception and the automotive prosthetic: photoconceptualism, the car, and urban space -- The nows of the automotive prosthetic: moving images, time, and the car -- Communication space: automotive urbanism in Dan Graham's work -- Hummer: the cultural militarism of art based on the SUV -- Richard Prince: the fetish and automotive maleficium -- Conclusion: the "freedom" of automotive existence.…”
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Public war, private conscience the ethics of political violence / by Fiala, Andrew G. (Andrew Gordon), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The sublime grind of Ares -- The war of public and private -- Plato's prophecy and Kant's dream -- Democratic control and professional ethics -- The military establishment -- The democratic peace myth : from Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad -- The vanity of temporal things : Hegel and the ethics of war -- American ambivalence : militarism, pacifism, and pragmatism -- Sliding scales and the mischief of war -- Waterboarding, torture, and violence -- Conscientious refusal and the liberal tradition -- Public myths and private protest.…”
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Public war, private conscience the ethics of political violence / by Fiala, Andrew G. (Andrew Gordon), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The sublime grind of Ares -- The war of public and private -- Plato's prophecy and Kant's dream -- Democratic control and professional ethics -- The military establishment -- The democratic peace myth : from Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad -- The vanity of temporal things : Hegel and the ethics of war -- American ambivalence : militarism, pacifism, and pragmatism -- Sliding scales and the mischief of war -- Waterboarding, torture, and violence -- Conscientious refusal and the liberal tradition -- Public myths and private protest.…”
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The business of civil war military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 / by Wilson, Mark (Mark R.), 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The rise and fall of a federal supply system -- The formation of a national bureaucracy -- The making of a mixed military economy -- The trouble with contracting -- The middleman on trial -- The unacknowledged militarization of America -- Appendix A : note on the value of a dollar during the Civil War era -- Appendix B : leading northern military contractors in selected industries -- Appendix C : note on data collection and record linkages.…”
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The business of civil war military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 / by Wilson, Mark (Mark R.), 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The rise and fall of a federal supply system -- The formation of a national bureaucracy -- The making of a mixed military economy -- The trouble with contracting -- The middleman on trial -- The unacknowledged militarization of America -- Appendix A : note on the value of a dollar during the Civil War era -- Appendix B : leading northern military contractors in selected industries -- Appendix C : note on data collection and record linkages.…”
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Revivalist Fantasy : Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History / by Schiff, Randy P., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the backwater : alliterative revivalism and nationalist fantasy -- Cross-channel becomings-animal : primal courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and William of Palerne -- Destabilizing Arthurian empire : gender and anxiety in alliterative texts of the militarized midlands -- Borderland subversions : anti-imperial energies in the Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane -- Bags of books and books as bags : political protest, communications technologies, and the Piers Plowman tradition.…”
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Clases sociales y acción obrera en Chile /

Table of Contents: “…Crisis del empleo y relaciones sociales / Cecilia Montero -- Cambios en la estratificación social entre 1970 y 1980 / Javier Martínez y Eugenio Tironi -- El movimiento obrero bajo el regimen militar / J. Samuel Valenzuela -- La acción social en la gran minería del cobre: continuidad o ruptura? …”
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Revivalist Fantasy : Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History / by Schiff, Randy P., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the backwater : alliterative revivalism and nationalist fantasy -- Cross-channel becomings-animal : primal courtliness in Guillaume de Palerne and William of Palerne -- Destabilizing Arthurian empire : gender and anxiety in alliterative texts of the militarized midlands -- Borderland subversions : anti-imperial energies in the Awntyrs off Arthure and Golagros and Gawane -- Bags of books and books as bags : political protest, communications technologies, and the Piers Plowman tradition.…”
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Clases sociales y acción obrera en Chile /

Table of Contents: “…Crisis del empleo y relaciones sociales / Cecilia Montero -- Cambios en la estratificación social entre 1970 y 1980 / Javier Martínez y Eugenio Tironi -- El movimiento obrero bajo el regimen militar / J. Samuel Valenzuela -- La acción social en la gran minería del cobre: continuidad o ruptura? …”
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Mobilizing the home front war bonds and domestic propaganda / by Kimble, James J., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Propaganda and the bonds of war -- A history of war bonds to 1942: the path to training and cohesion -- War bond drives in 1942 and 1943: developing apprehensive enthusiasm -- War bond drives in 1944: struggling with resignation -- The mighty seventh and the victory loan: the 1945 war bond drives as a terminal period -- Assessing the Treasury's war bond legacies: militarized propaganda, enemy constructions, and the war's perfecting myth.…”
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Mobilizing the home front war bonds and domestic propaganda / by Kimble, James J., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Propaganda and the bonds of war -- A history of war bonds to 1942: the path to training and cohesion -- War bond drives in 1942 and 1943: developing apprehensive enthusiasm -- War bond drives in 1944: struggling with resignation -- The mighty seventh and the victory loan: the 1945 war bond drives as a terminal period -- Assessing the Treasury's war bond legacies: militarized propaganda, enemy constructions, and the war's perfecting myth.…”
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Iraq the human cost of history /

Table of Contents: “…Nagy -- The U.S. obsession with Iraq and the triumph of militarism / Stephen Zunes -- Not quite an Arab Prussia : revisiting some myths on Iraqi exceptionalism / Isam al-Khafaji.…”
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Iraq the human cost of history /

Table of Contents: “…Nagy -- The U.S. obsession with Iraq and the triumph of militarism / Stephen Zunes -- Not quite an Arab Prussia : revisiting some myths on Iraqi exceptionalism / Isam al-Khafaji.…”
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