Deadly developments : capitalism, states and war / edited by S.P. Reyna and R.E. Downs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : deadly developments and phantasmagoric representations / S.P. Reyna -- The force of two logics : predatory and capital accumulation in the making of the great Leviathan, 1415-1763 / S.P. Reyna -- Colonialism and the efflorescence of warfare : the New Ireland case / Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel -- Insurrection in the Texas Mexican borderlands : the plan of San Diego / Canderlario Sàenz -- War in Uganda : north and south / Joan Vincent -- Warfare in the Lower Omo Valley, southwestern Ethiopia : reconciling materialist and political explanations / David Turton -- Requiem for the rational war / Carolyn Nordstrom -- The politics of ethnic conflict in a transboundary context, the Senegal River Valley / John Magistro -- Ethnicity and land tenure in the Sahel / Pierre Bonte -- Detour onto the shining path : obscuring the social revolution in the Andes / William P. Mitchell.

"Deadly Developments challenges the notion developed by social theorists such as Comte, Spencer, Durkheim and Engels that war will diminish with the formation and perpetuation of a capitalist economy and industry. Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. Many Western and ethnocentric scholarly representations of war succeed in hiding the "deadly developments" that occur as a result of capitalist state formation and relations. Deadly Developments, the newest volume in the War and Society book series, questions the foundations of classical social theory, while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history and anthropology."--Jacket.

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