War
A Cruel Necessity? - Bases of Institutionalized Violence
Published on 31. December 1994
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85043-824-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is an examination of the forces that sustain war as an institution. The persistence of violence is considered over a wide geographical range and the authors examine such factors as the ways in which the motivation for war is socialized in children and fed by militarism, the myths of war in the popular imagination and the representation of war by the media.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-824-3 (9781850438243)
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Content
Part 1 Persisting violence: the warring state in China as institution and idea, Mark Lewis; payback and ritual in war in New Guinea, Gilbert Lewis; communal violence in northern Ghana - unaccepted war, Susan Drucker-Brown; nationalist imaginings of war in Cyprus, Yiannis Papadakis; families in conflict - pervasive violence in Northern Ireland, Dominic Murray; a very modern war - terror and territory in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Cornelia Sorabji. Part 2 Enhancing motivation: war and peace - the socialization of children, Sharon Smith and Linda Siegel; war and militarism, Hylke Tromp; the knights of the sky and the myth of the war experience, George Mosse; the role of the mass media in modern wars, Jo Groebel; patriotism and nationalism, two components of national identity with different implications for war and peace, Sy Feshbach; war and religion - an unholy alliance?, Helen Watson. Part 3 The sub-institutions: modern Japan and war - a problem with the past, Joe McDermott; economics and conflict, Robert Nield; lack of parliamentary accountability and its effect on arms build-up, Scilla Elworthy; the arms trade, Michael Brzoska.