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The crimes of empire : rogue superpower and world domination /

Imperial nations advance their own interests by exploiting other societies. To those on the receiving end this is obvious, while inside the empire, a powerful ideological system of justification tends to hide all but the worst excess. Carl Boggs argues that that the USA began life two centuries ago...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boggs, Carl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Pluto Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Crimes against peace
  • Warfare against civilians
  • War crimes by proxy
  • Weapons of mass destruction
  • A tale of broken treaties
  • War-crimes tribunals : imperial justice
  • Torture and other atrocities
  • Conclusion : empire or survival?
  • Postscript : the routinization of mass murder.