The sociology of war and violence
"War is a highly complex and dynamic form of social conflict. This new book demonstrates the importance of using sociological tools to understand the changing character of war and organised violence. The author offers an original analysis of the historical and contemporary impact that coercion...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. War and violence in classical social thought
- 2. The contemporary sociology of organised violence
- 3. War and violence before modernity
- 4. Organized violence and modernity
- 5. The social geographies of warfare
- 6. Nationalism and war
- 7. War propaganda and solidarity
- 8. Social stratification, warfare and violence
- 9. Gendering of war
- 10. New wars?