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UNINA9910453642803321 |
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Animals and war : confronting the military-animal industrial complex / / edited by Colin Salter, Anthony J. Nocella II, Judy K. C. Bentley |
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Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1-4985-2086-3 |
0-7391-8652-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical Animal Studies and Theory |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SalterColin <1957-> |
NocellaAnthony J |
BentleyJudy K. C |
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Animals - War use |
Animal welfare |
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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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ANIMALS AND WAR; CONTENTS; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Introducing the Military-Animal Industrial Complex; Chapter One Animals as Vehicles of War; Chapter Two Front Toward Animals: Animal Exploitation in U.S. Military Medical Training Exercises; Chapter Three Nonhuman Animals as Weapons of War; Chapter Four War: Animals in the Aftermath; Chapter Five Animals at War; Chapter Six The Future of War and Animals; Conclusion A Critical Animal and Peace Studies Argument to Ending All Wars; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
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<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex</span><span> is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a |
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must read for anyone interested in ending war and f |
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UNINA9910459938103321 |
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Autore |
Naylor R. T. <1945-> |
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Canada in the European age, 1453-1919 [[electronic resource] /] / R.T. Naylor |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006 |
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1-282-86596-X |
9786612865961 |
0-7735-7546-4 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Economic history |
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Canada Economic conditions To 1763 |
Canada Economic conditions 19th century |
Canada Foreign economic relations Europe |
Europe Foreign economic relations Canada |
Canada Foreign economic relations United States |
United States Foreign economic relations Canada |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. The discoveries -- 2. The foundations of English bullionism -- 3. The foundations of French bullionism -- 4. The aftermath of the discoveries -- 5. The origins of the English plantation system -- 6. The origins of the French plantation system -- 7. Competition for empire, 1663-1713 -- 8. France in America, 1713-1763 -- 9. Competition for empire, 1713-1763 -- 10. The triumph and collapse of British mercantilism -- 11. The industrial revolution and the colonial system -- 12. Competition for empire, 1793-1832 -- 13. The Atlantic seaboard : from mercantilism to industrial capitalism -- 14. The contest for the continental interior, 1763-1821 -- 15. Emigration and |
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colonization, 1763-1841 -- 16. Finance and politics in Canada, 1793-1841 -- 17. The triumph of steam and gold -- 18. Commercial reorientation and structural change in the economy of United Canada -- 19. The dawn of the railway age in British North America -- 20. The railroad to confederation : Canadian expansion -- 21. The railroad to confederation : the maritime response -- 22. Reconquest of the northwest -- 23. The rise of the Pacific economy -- 24. Fur trade and Pacific empire -- 25. From company colony to company province -- 26. Imperialist rivalries, 1873-1914 -- 27. A railway from Europe to China -- 28. The contest for the continental interior, 1873-1914 -- 29. Canada and the cross of gold -- 30. Industrial development and continental integration -- 31. Transcontinental empire -- 32. Canadian expansion overseas -- 33. The approach of war -- 34. The Canadian economy in the Great War -- 35. The aftermath of war. |
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