[PDF] Prehistories Of The War On Terror eBook

Author : A. J. Yumi Lee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1512825158

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Prehistories of the War on Terror examines the longstanding American project of classifying enemies who challenge U.S. power abroad as terrorists. To do so, the volume brings disparate episodes of U.S. military empire-building into dialogue across time and space. From settler colonial wars in the nineteenth-century American West to twentieth-century wars of conquest in Asia and the Pacific, the collection’s essays argue that the United States has drawn both materially and ideologically on older systems of empire in the conflicts through which it has waged the present-day War on Terror. Attending to the local histories from which these conflicts emerged and examining the effects of U.S. intervention in these sites, contributors analyze the cultural frameworks for understanding and remembering past conflicts that confirm, challenge, or refigure the logics of the War on Terror. This volume reveals how contestations over sovereignty, extraction, and inequality must be suppressed and flattened in public discourse to maintain a coherent vision of a totalizing War on Terror. Together, the contributors illustrate that there was no single road that led to 9/11 or the War on Terror. Rather, they argue that we must follow multiple paths into the past to fully understand our present and to fight for a more just future. Contributors: Moustafa Bayoumi, Joo Ok Kim, Janne Lahti, A. J. Yumi Lee, Naveed Mansoori, Karen R. Miller, Kalyan Nadiminti, Tim Roberts, Colleen Woods.

Author : Gérard Chaliand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520292502

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First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.

Author : Roderick Campbell
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782976213

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This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The question then becomes what forms of harm are authorized or banned in which social orders and how they change over time. Beginning with a theoretical introduction, this interdisciplinary volume includes seven papers representing cultural anthropology, history, archaeology and international relations. The papers range from China to the Americas and from the 2nd millennium BCE to the 21st century CE. Some deal with long-term developments while others focus on a single time and place. Many treat the issue of the visibility/invisibility of violence, while all in one way or another deal with the role of violence in the re-production of community. Together, the volume aims to paint, with a few strokes, the outlines of a deep historical anthropology of social violence. The volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium hosted at Brown University.

Author : Brian Forst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2008-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 110737717X

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Terrorism, Crime, and Public Policy describes the problem of terrorism; compares it to other forms of aggression, particularly crime and war; and discusses policy options for dealing with the terrorism. It focuses on the causes of terrorism with the aim of understanding its roots and providing insights toward policies that will serve to prevent it. The book serves as a single-source reference on terrorism and as a platform for more in-depth study, with a set of discussion questions at the end of each chapter. Individual chapters focus on the nature of terrorism, theories of aggression and terrorism, the history of terrorism, the role of religion, non-religious extremism and terrorism, the role of technology, terrorism throughout the modern world, responses to terrorism, fear of terrorism, short-term approaches and long-term strategies for preventing terrorism, balancing security and rights to liberty and privacy, and pathways to a safer and saner 21st century.

Author : David Cortright
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262532956

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"Argues that defeating the global terrorist threat requires engaging international financial, diplomatic, intelligence, and defense communities and law enforcement organizations in an atmosphere of cooperation." - cover.

Author : Calvin F. Exoo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 141295360X

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The Pen and the Sword is the only comprehensive examination of how the media have covered the 21st century's #1 news story: terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the full story-from 9/11 to the Obama doctrine-including

Author : Azar Gat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0199236631

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Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? And what of war today: is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? This book sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt to unravel the riddle of war throughout human history.

Author : Ethan Pettus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2017-04-22
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 9781545500743

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A search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad is sent to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. As they hunt through the primordial depths of the valley, they discover ancient horrors that not only threaten to unravel their minds, but to end their lives as well. When the casualties mount, the men of Vulture Squad must abandon their human nature and give in to their savage instincts in order to survive...the Primitive War.DISCLAIMER - This novel is set in the Vietnam War, and as such, it isn't suitable for children. There is graphic violence, adult language, drug use, and many references to war-borne tragedy.

Author : I. Land
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0230612547

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This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the "war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers.

Author : Raj Kumar Pruthi
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : 9788176485814

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Relates To History And Culture Of Ancient India And Aims To Make Available The Best Sources On The Subject In Proper Historical Perspective. Has 13 Chapters. Also Covers Indus Valley Civilization In 16 Chapters, Has An Appendix, Map And Illustrations.