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Hassig, Ross, 1945-
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972.52 20
Publication Date
1992
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In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Hassig offers insights into 3000 years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practised by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.
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Hassig, Ross, 1945-
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972.52 20
Publication Date
1992
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In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Hassig offers insights into 3000 years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practised by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.
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Parrott, David.
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944.032 21
Publication Date
2001
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It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold upon France. Runner up in the History Today Awards 2002.
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158237.0938
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Ward, Harry M.
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973.31 22
Publication Date
2003
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Rich, John, 1944-
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303.660938 20
Publication Date
1993
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Rich, John, 1944-
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355.00937 20
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1993
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Barnett, Michael N., 1960-
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322.50962 22
Publication Date
1992
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What determines the strategies by which a state mobilizes resources for war? And does war preparation strengthen or weaken the state in relation to society? In looking at these questions, Michael Barnett develops a novel theoretical framework that traces the connection between war preparation and changes in state-society relations, and applies that framework to Egypt from 1952 to 1977 and Israel from 1948 through 1977. Confronting the Costs of War addresses major issues in international relations, comparative politics, and Middle Eastern studies. The author argues that Egyptian and Israeli war preparation strategies were a function of systemic, state, and societal variables, and that leaders in each state attempted to balance the demands imposed by international conflict with their domestic economic and political objectives. Before 1967 the governments' strategies led to the expansion of state control over society. But contrary to the prevailing wisdom that war and war preparation will generally strengthen the state, the increased security pressures after 1967 were central to the decline of state power in both countries. After that year, Israeli and Egyptian officials ventured on a path that bolstered the state's military preparedness, but at the cost of its control over society and economy.
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Hattaway, Herman.
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973.7 22
Publication Date
2004
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Samito, Christian G.
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342.730873 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
The first comprehensive collection of legal history documents from the Civil War and Reconstruction, this volume shows the profound legal changes that occurred during the Civil War era and highlights how law, society, and politics inextricably mixed and set American legal development on particular paths that were not predetermined. Editor Christian G. Samito has carefully selected excerpts from legislation, public and legislative debates, court cases, investigations of white supremacist violence in the South, and rare court-martial records, added his expert analysis, and illu.
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McRandle, James H., 1925-
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355.0209 20
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1994
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Nordstrom, Carolyn, 1953-
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303.66 22
Publication Date
2004
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In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering.
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Price, Stuart, 1958-
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303.66 22
Publication Date
2010
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Brute Reality is a fascinating analysis of the attempts by Western countries to justify their increasingly violent foreign-policy agendas and assert the contradictory interests of a transnational elite.
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