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ISBN-13: | 9780801479625 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 05/21/2015 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Introduction1. Studying War, States, and ContentionPart 1. War and Movements in the Building of New States2. A Movement-State Goes to War: France, 1789–17993. A Movement Makes War: Civil War and Reconstruction4. A War Makes Movements: The Strange Death of Illiberal ItalyPart 2. Endless Wars5. From Statist to Composite Wars6. Wars at Home, 1917–19757. The War at Home, 2001–20138. The American State of Terror9. Contesting HegemonyPart 3. Internationalization and the New World of Contention10. The Dark Side of InternationalismConclusionsNotesReferencesAcknowledgmentsIndexWhat People are Saying About This
Here, a towering scholar of contentious politics links his long-standing concerns to the historical study of war and state making with powerful analytical results. Crossing boundaries of time, place, and disciplinary emphasis, this compelling book teaches many lessons about law and liberty, nationalism and globalization, democracy and emergency, protest and power.
Sidney Tarrow breaks important new ground by showing, from the French Revolution to the War on Terror, how in wartime the 'inside' of domestic contentious politics fundamentally shapes, and is shaped by, the ‘outside’ of international relations. This nuanced and impressively sweeping account makes clear that to understand the dynamics of war-making, one must simultaneously examine the internal domestic conflict of the state and civil society.
In War, States, and Contention, Sidney Tarrow brings his unusual insight into social movements to war-making and state-building. The result is an intellectually ambitious and deeply passionate book that ranges widely across time and space, illuminating both common patterns and distinctive trajectories from the French Revolution to the War on Terror. It is a remarkable book.
In the face of our epoch's wrenching conflicts, once seemingly solid understandings of the modern world are at risk of melting into air. Sidney Tarrow's lively and compelling study of conventional 'composite,’ and 'endless’ war draws together diverse themes—states, democracy and authoritarianism, citizenship and rights, social movements, contentious politics, and forms of power—to establish a new rubric and substantive analysis of modern history and the shifting geopolitical dynamics of the twenty-first century. War, States, and Contention is a necessary book for any serious discussion of our global future.
Sidney Tarrow has shown richly and persuasively the intimate connections between domestic contention and warfare—civil, interstate, and against transnational movements. War makes states, but so does internal contention, and the effects on democracy, especially on civil liberties, can be long-lasting and profound.