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War Machine – The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern A...
Book Title
War Machine – The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern A...
ISBN
0300067194
EAN
9780300067194
Binding
Paperback
Genre
Warfare & defence
Height
16.76
Length
231.39
Width
155.96
Release Title
War Machine – The Rationalization of Slaughter in the Modern A...
Artist
Pick, Daniel
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Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
War Machine: the Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age
Item Height
239mm
Author
Daniel Pick
Publisher
Yale University Press
Item Width
154mm
Subject
Government
Item Weight
458g
Number of Pages
300 Pages

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This fascinating book examines Western perceptions of war in and beyond the nineteenth century, surveying the writings of novelists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, poets, natural scientists, and journalists to trace the origins of modern philosophies about the nature of war and conflict. Daniel Pick compares philosophical and historical models of conflict with fictions of invasion and biological speculation about the nature and value of conquest. He discusses the work of such familiar commentators on war as Clausewitz, Engels, and von Bernhardi, and examines little-known writings by Proudhon, De Quincey, Ruskin, Valery, and many others. He explores nineteenth-century English fears of French contamination through the Channel Tunnel and the widespread continuing dread of German domination. And he analyzes the history of the widely-shared European belief that war is beneficial or at least functionally necessary. A central theme of the book is the disturbing relationship between machinery and destruction. According to Pick, relentless technological progress and the irresistible rise of the military-industrial complex risks turning conflict into little more than a sophisticated game played out by high-precision automata. Shorn of human agency or responsibility, war could become technologically unstoppable, a flawless mechanism for human slaughter.

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Yale University Press
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9780300067194
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Author
Daniel Pick
Publication Name
War Machine: the Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
300 Pages

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Item Height
239mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
458g

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Daniel Pick
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