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The hidden structure of violence : who benefits from global violence and war / by Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Achord Rountree

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Pilisuk, Marc
Published
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2015]
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Rountree, Jennifer Achord
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Contents
The costs of modern war -- Killing : war and the minds of men -- The hidden structure of violence -- People, farmland, water, and narcotics -- Networks of power -- Realpolitik: strategies and tactics for winning -- Disinformation -- Values and habits that maintain a violent system -- The evolution of corporate power to inflict -- Violence and injustice : dangers and hopes.
Summary
Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel by the arc of a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and theymay leave behind a smoldering village or a starved child. The all-pervasiveness of violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the modern world. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jen Rountree demonstrate otherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact an expression of the underlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or by patterns of investment, the aim is to streng.
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ISBN
9781583675458 (electronic bk.)
1583675450 (electronic bk.)
9781583675434
9781583675427 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1583675426
1583675434
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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