Dialectics of War: An Essay in the Social Theory of Total War and Peace
A hard-to-find book in which Professor Martin Shaw argues that the logic of modern war is self-defeating, by examining the creep of militarism into nominally civilian realms.
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Alternatives to Militarism 1900-1989: Women Against the Iron Fist
This title examines women’s experiences of war as an alternative to conflict. Such issues examined include American visionaries, living voices from Europe and Communism
The Christian Attitude Toward War
To the people of our day has been given the privilege of living during some of the most momentous crises in the history of the world. Within the lifetime of one generation our nation has been engaged in two world wars and two smaller wars, the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, with their attendant large-scale […]
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War
During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of federal troops into three southern states. Jeanette Keith […]
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
“This is the kind of investigatory history Hochschild pulls off like no one else . . . Hochschild is a master at chronicling how prevailing cultural opinion is formed and, less frequently, how it’s challenged.” — Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four […]
Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia (Routledge Studies in Religion)
It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of ‘peaceful’ behavior. This stereotype – which may […]
Prophetic Realism: Beyond Militarism and Pacifism in an Age of Terror
After September 11, 2001, ordinary citizens faced a new world ruled by political and religious machinations against the threat of terrorism. While political leaders pursued a policy of militarism, many religious leaders advocated pacificism. Ronald H. Stone advocates a middle road between these two extremes, what he calls prophetic realism. Taking up Reinhold Niebuhr’s notion […]
Dialogues on Migration Policy (Program in Migration and Refugee Studies)
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy’s aim to present a number of informed ‘dialogues’ addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, […]
Fear in Bongoland: Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania (Forced Migration)
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas. This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote […]
Materialising Exile: Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in Thailand (Forced Migration)
Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use […]
