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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451523103321

Titolo

Deadly developments : capitalism, states and war / / edited by S.P. Reyna and R.E. Downs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Gordon & Breach, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-30074-7

1-283-88234-5

1-280-15003-3

9786610150038

0-203-98980-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

War and society ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

DownsR. E

ReynaStephen P

Disciplina

303.6

306.2

Soggetti

War - Economic aspects

War - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

War - History

Capitalism

Violence - Political aspects

Violence - Political aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE The Force of Two Logics; TWO Colonialism and the Efflorescence of Warfare; THREE Insurrection in the Texas Mexican Borderlands; FOUR War in Uganda: North and South; FIVE Warf are in the Lower Omo Valley, Southwestern Ethiopia; SIX Requiem for the Rational War; SEVEN The Politics of Ethnic Conflict in a Transboundary Context, the Senegal River Valley; EIGHT Ethnicity and Land Tenure in the Sahel; NINE Detour onto the Shining Path; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating



local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history, and