| Description |
vi, 328 p. |
| Series |
War and society |
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War and society (Routledge (Firm))
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| Note |
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Comments on state, identity, and violence / Eric R. Wolf -- Forces of reaction and changes of scale in the world system of states / Joseph A. Tainter -- The state concept and a world of polities under perpetual siege / Yale H. Ferguson -- Tribalism, ethnicity, and the state / David Maybury-Lewis -- Culture, violence and ethnic nationalism: weighing alternative strategies of explanation and media representation / Kay Warren -- Civil war in Peru: culture and violence in historical perspective / Linda J. Seligmann -- 'Religious' violence in India: Ayodhya and the Hindu right / Johanna M. Lessinger -- The specter of superfluity: genesis of schism in the dismantling of Yugoslavia / Bette Denich -- From the margins to the center: the Macedonian controversy in contemporary Greece / Anastasia Karakasidou -- Liberia: civil war and the 'collapse' of the settler state / Diana Deg. Brown -- Angola and the fragmentation of the post-colonial African state / Helio Belik -- A Cold War story: the barbarization of Chad (1966-91) / S.P. Reyna -- The Cold War and chaos in Somalia: a view from the ground / Catherine Besteman -- Conflicts versus contracts: political flows and blockages in Papua New Guinea / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Political violence.
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Political violence -- Case studies.
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State, The.
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Nation-state.
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Ethnic relations.
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International relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ferguson, R. Brian.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0415274125 (hardback) |
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