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War : the lethal custom / Gwynne Dyer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005.Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf edDescription: x, 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0786715383
  • 9780786715381
  • 0786717718 (pbk.)
  • 9780786717712 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • War (Motion picture)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.02 22
LOC classification:
  • U21.2 .D93 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
The nature of the beast -- Anybody's son will do -- The roots of war : Rousseau, Darwin and Hobbes -- The rise of battle -- The middle passage -- The road to mass warfare -- Reductio ad absurdum : total war -- A short history of nuclear war, 1945-90 -- Keeping the old game alive -- Guerrillas and terrorists -- The end of war.
Summary: Ranging from the tumbling walls of Jericho to the modern advent of total war in which no child or civilian is exempt from the horrors of combat, the author shows how the martial instinct has evolved over the human generations. He demonstrates that the underlying purpose of war has remained unchanged while technology has developed to such a degree that were total combat to break out among the great powers, a million people could be dead before worldwide media reported the conflict.
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Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level 355.02 D9884W 1 Available 38060007353378
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Based on the PBS television series, War.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-461) and index.

The nature of the beast -- Anybody's son will do -- The roots of war : Rousseau, Darwin and Hobbes -- The rise of battle -- The middle passage -- The road to mass warfare -- Reductio ad absurdum : total war -- A short history of nuclear war, 1945-90 -- Keeping the old game alive -- Guerrillas and terrorists -- The end of war.

Ranging from the tumbling walls of Jericho to the modern advent of total war in which no child or civilian is exempt from the horrors of combat, the author shows how the martial instinct has evolved over the human generations. He demonstrates that the underlying purpose of war has remained unchanged while technology has developed to such a degree that were total combat to break out among the great powers, a million people could be dead before worldwide media reported the conflict.

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