The Sociology of War and Peace

✍ Scribed by Colin Creighton, Martin Shaw (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Series: Explorations in Sociology
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Violence, Peace and War in ‘Early’ Human Society: The Case of the Eskimo....Pages 17-36
War and the Rise of the West....Pages 37-53
War and Social Theory: Into Battle with Classes, Nations and States....Pages 54-72
Hi-Tech Armaments, Space Militarisation and the Third World....Pages 73-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Militarisation and the South African State....Pages 99-120
Israel: Conflict, War and Social Change....Pages 121-142
The Rise and Fall of the Military-Democratic State: Britain 1940–85....Pages 143-158
The People’s War and the People’s Theatre: British Socialist Theatre 1939–45....Pages 159-177
What did you do in the War, Mam? Women Steelworkers at the Consett Iron Company during the Second World War....Pages 178-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
The Sociology of CND....Pages 199-217
Activists for Peace: The Social Basis of a Local Peace Movement....Pages 218-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-245

✦ Subjects

Sociology, general

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