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War in social thought : Hobbes to the present /

"This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the developmen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joas, Hans, 1948-
Otros Autores: Knöbl, Wolfgang, 1963-, Skinner, Alex
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • War and peace before sociology: social theorizing on violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic wars
  • The long peace of the nineteenth century and the birth of sociology
  • The classical figures of sociology and the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century
  • Sociology and social theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970s
  • After modernization theory: historical sociology and the bellicose constitution of Western modernity
  • After the East-West conflict: democratization, state collapse, and empire building.