American wars, American peace [[electronic resource] ] : notes from a son of the empire / / Philip D. Beidler |
Autore | Beidler Philip D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism
War and society - United States Memory - Social aspects - United States Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Social aspects Idealism, American |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-55299-6
9786612552991 0-8203-3649-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459355403321 |
Beidler Philip D | ||
Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American wars, American peace [[electronic resource] ] : notes from a son of the empire / / Philip D. Beidler |
Autore | Beidler Philip D |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism
War and society - United States Memory - Social aspects - United States Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Social aspects Idealism, American |
ISBN |
1-282-55299-6
9786612552991 0-8203-3649-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792339603321 |
Beidler Philip D | ||
Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American wars, American peace : notes from a son of the empire / / Philip D. Beidler |
Autore | Beidler Philip D |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism
War and society - United States Memory - Social aspects - United States Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Social aspects Idealism, American |
ISBN |
1-282-55299-6
9786612552991 0-8203-3649-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Pax Americana -- Top Gun and the Tank Driver -- Sons and Fathers, Bad Wars and Good Wars -- An Old GI Looks at Generation Kill -- Squad Leaders in the Sky -- Home of the Infantry -- Hajis -- What I Learned in the Green Machine -- Swindled by Saint Jack -- The Best and the Brightest, Only Dumber -- Hopeless in Honolulu -- A Note on Sources. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809613103321 |
Beidler Philip D | ||
Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.2/70973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KellyJohn D |
Soggetto topico |
Political anthropology - United States
War and society - United States Counterinsurgency - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9786612538087
1-282-53808-X 0-226-42995-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency -- 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations -- 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror -- 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq -- 20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency -- 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier -- 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456309603321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.2/70973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KellyJohn D |
Soggetto topico |
Political anthropology - United States
War and society - United States Counterinsurgency - United States |
Soggetto non controllato | anthropology, counterinsurgency, governance, government, politics, foreign relations, war, military, sociology, state violence, pax americana, interventionism, conflict, national security, maldives, terrorism, nationalism, conscience, marine, soldiers, occupation, iraq, cultural sensitivity, indirect rule, vietnam, spies, espionage, palestine, rwanda, human rights, turkey, empire, nonfiction, history, political science |
ISBN |
9786612538087
1-282-53808-X 0-226-42995-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency -- 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations -- 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror -- 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq -- 20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency -- 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier -- 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781158703321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Anthropology and global counterinsurgency / / edited by John D. Kelly ...[et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.2/70973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | KellyJohn D |
Soggetto topico |
Political anthropology - United States
War and society - United States Counterinsurgency - United States |
ISBN |
9786612538087
1-282-53808-X 0-226-42995-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience -- 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by "Civil"-izing National Security -- 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti -- 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict -- 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War -- 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon -- 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey -- 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror -- 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War -- 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time -- 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age -- 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency -- 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam -- 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback -- 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field -- 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns -- 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological "Leveraging" of Cultural "Assets": Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency -- 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations -- 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror -- 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: The U.S. Military in Iraq -- 20. The "Bad" Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency -- 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier -- 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine -- Reference List -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815040303321 |
Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Chickenhawk syndrome [[electronic resource] ] : war, sacrifice, and personal responsibility / / Cheyney Ryan |
Autore | Ryan Cheyney <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/6 |
Soggetto topico |
War and society - United States
Sacrifice - United States Responsibility - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9780742565050
074256505X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "Mr. President, when do we enlist?": the reality of alienated war -- The rise and fall of the citizen-soldier; or, bye-bye, Elvis -- Chickenhawk variations -- Integrity, reciprocity, and the Murtha test -- "Invisible in war, invincible in peace": Chickee-Hawk variations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454998103321 |
Ryan Cheyney <1948-> | ||
Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Chickenhawk syndrome [[electronic resource] ] : war, sacrifice, and personal responsibility / / Cheyney Ryan |
Autore | Ryan Cheyney <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/6 |
Soggetto topico |
War and society - United States
Sacrifice - United States Responsibility - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
9780742565050
074256505X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "Mr. President, when do we enlist?": the reality of alienated war -- The rise and fall of the citizen-soldier; or, bye-bye, Elvis -- Chickenhawk variations -- Integrity, reciprocity, and the Murtha test -- "Invisible in war, invincible in peace": Chickee-Hawk variations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777968803321 |
Ryan Cheyney <1948-> | ||
Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Chickenhawk syndrome : war, sacrifice, and personal responsibility / / Cheyney Ryan |
Autore | Ryan Cheyney <1948-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/6 |
Soggetto topico |
War and society - United States
Sacrifice - United States Responsibility - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
9780742565050
074256505X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "Mr. President, when do we enlist?": the reality of alienated war -- The rise and fall of the citizen-soldier; or, bye-bye, Elvis -- Chickenhawk variations -- Integrity, reciprocity, and the Murtha test -- "Invisible in war, invincible in peace": Chickee-Hawk variations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818448003321 |
Ryan Cheyney <1948-> | ||
Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The deaths of others [[electronic resource] ] : the fate of civilians in America's wars / / John Tirman |
Autore | Tirman John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (417 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Civilians in war
Battle casualties War and society - United States Militarism - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-025237-5
1-283-09916-0 9786613099167 0-19-970099-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460110203321 |
Tirman John | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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