TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joas,Hans
TI  - War and modernity
SN  - 0745626440
AV  - HM554 .J613 2003
U1  - 303.66 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - War and society
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index; Introduction: Wars and Values --; Pt. I; The Modernity of War; 1; The Dream of a Modernity without Violence; 2; The Modernity of War: Modernization Theory and the Problem of Violence; 3; Ideologies of War: The First World War as Reflected in the Contemporary Social Sciences --; Pt. II; After War; 4; After the War: Democracy and Anti-Communism in Berlin after 1945; 5; After the Cold War: The Collapse of the German Democratic Republic; Martin Kohli; 6; Sprayed and Betrayed: The Experience of Violence in the Vietnam War and Its Consequences --; Pt. III; War and Violence in Social Theory; 7; Between Power Politics and Pacifist Utopia: Peace and War in Sociological Theory; 8; Is There a Militarist Tradition in Sociology?; 9; Sociology after Auschwitz: Zygmunt Bauman's Work and the Problems of German Self-Understanding; 10; War and the Risk Society; 11; War the Teacher?; 12; Action Theory and the Dynamics of Violence
ER  -