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The sociology of war and violence /

"War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Malešević, Siniša
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : war, violence and the social
  • Collective violence and sociological theory. War and violence in classical social thought
  • The contemporary sociology of organised violence
  • War in time and space. War and violence before modernity
  • Organized violence and modernity
  • The social geographies of warfare
  • Warfare : ideas and practices. Nationalism and war
  • War propaganda and solidarity
  • War, violence and social divisions. Social stratification, warfare and violence
  • Gendering of war
  • Organised violence in the twenty-first century. New wars?
  • Conclusion.