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UNINA9910452532403321 |
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Richardson Jacques |
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War, Science and Terrorism : From Laboratory to Open Conflict / / by Dr J Richardson |
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2012] |
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©2002 |
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0-203-04584-X |
1-283-88604-9 |
1-136-34512-4 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Military research |
Military-industrial complex |
Terrorism |
World politics - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Transferred to digital printing 2005. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-331) and index. |
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Cover; WAR, SCIENCE and TERRORISM; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword by Kenneth Macksey; Preface; Part I: Preparation for Conflict; 1 From Bows and Arrows to Missiles and Aircraft; 2 The Real Stakes in the Space Adventure are Military; 3 Slipping the Warrior beneath the Seas; 4 The German and Anglo-American Race to Nuclear Armament; 5 Russia and Other Powers Hurry to Catch up with the Nucleus; 6 Optimizing Human Resources: Procurement, Training, Management; Part II: Warfare and Its Management |
7 Endologistics: Forts, Food, Feed, Fuel and Freight8 Exologistics: How the Natural Environment Conditions Battle; 9 Communicating, Commanding, Controlling ... and a Little Deception; 10 From Military Aviation's Radar to Computer Notebooks; 11 Military Medicine Saves Fighting Strength; 12 Simulating Strategy, Operations, Tactics; Part III: Behind the Action, and Wars to Come; 13 Who Are the Scientists Working with the Military?; 14 What Role for the Scientist in Future |
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Wars?; Afterword; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Describes the application of research to the evolution of weapons. It shows how natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are exploited how even social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield and logistical management, and careful preparation of terroristic acts. |
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UNINA9910468018503321 |
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Autore |
Greiman Jennifer |
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Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing / / Jennifer Greiman |
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New York, [New York] : , : Fordham University Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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0-8232-4115-7 |
9786613297204 |
1-283-29720-5 |
0-8232-4165-3 |
0-8232-3101-1 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 276 p.) |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Democracy in literature |
Sovereignty in literature |
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
Democracy - Psychological aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. “The thing is new”: Sovereignty and Slavery in Democracy in America -- 2. Color, Race, and the Spectacle of Opinion in Beaumont’s Marie -- 3. |
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“The Hangman’s Accomplice”: Spectacle and Complicity in Lydia Maria Child’s New York -- 4. The Spectacle of Reform: Theater and Prison in Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance -- 5. Theatricality, Strangeness, and Democracy in Melville’s Confidence-Man -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship of democracy to sovereign power that continues to occupy political theory today. Is sovereignty, with its reliance on singular and exceptional power, fundamentally inimical to democracy? Or might a more fully realized democracy distribute, share, and popularize sovereignty, thus blunting its exceptional character and its basic violence? In Democracy's Spectacle, Jennifer Greiman looks to an earlier moment in the history of American democracy's vexed interpretation of sovereignty to argue that such questions about the popularization of sovereign power shaped debates about political belonging and public life in the antebellum United States. In an emergent democracy that was also an expansionist slave society, Greiman argues, the problems that sovereignty posed were less concerned with a singular and exceptional power lodged in the state than with a power over life and death that involved all Americans intimately.Drawing on Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of the sovereignty of the people in Democracy in America, along with work by Gustave de Beaumont, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, Greiman tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Greiman brings together literature and political theory, as well as materials on antebellum performance culture, antislavery activism, and penitentiary reform, to argue that the antebellum public sphere, transformed by its empowerment, emerges as a spectacle with investments in both punishment and entertainment. |
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