In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America, Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites
Автор: Jon Simons, John Louis Lucaites Название: In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America ISBN: 0813585384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813585383 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, which absents and renders invisible the former. Large portions of the domestic public experience war only at a distance. For these citizens, war seems abstract, or may even seem to have disappeared altogether due to a relative absence of visual images of casualties. Perhaps even more significantly, wars can be fought without sacrifice by the vast majority of Americans. Yet, the normalization of twenty-first century war also renders it highly visible. War is made visible through popular, commercial, mediated culture. The spectacle of war occupies the contemporary public sphere in the forms of celebrations at athletic events and in films, video games, and other media, coming together as MIME, the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network.
Автор: Scheidel Walter Название: The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 0691165025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691165028 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality declines when carnage and disaster strike and increases when peace and stability return. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world. Ever since humans began to farm, herd livestock, and pass on their assets to future generations, economic inequality has been a defining feature of civilization. Over thousands of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The "Four Horsemen" of leveling--mass-mobilization warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic plagues--have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich. Scheidel identifies and examines these processes, from the crises of the earliest civilizations to the cataclysmic world wars and communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Today, the violence that reduced inequality in the past seems to have diminished, and that is a good thing. But it casts serious doubt on the prospects for a more equal future. An essential contribution to the debate about inequality, The Great Leveler provides important new insights about why inequality is so persistent--and why it is unlikely to decline anytime soon."--
Автор: Boyle Kirk, Mrozowski Daniel Название: The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture ISBN: 0739180630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739180631 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 219170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This DVD-Rom covers the Great War away from the Western Front, it is a follow-on to our successful DVD-Rom, which provided the official record of the fighting in which British troops were involved in France and Flanders during the Great War 1914-1918 the Western Front. It contains the official record of all the other campaigns in which British troops took part Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, East Africa, Macedonia, Italy, Egypt and Palestine, Persia, Togoland and the Cameroons. Also included is Brig-Gen Sir J.E.Edmondss account of the Occupation of Constantinople in 1919 and that of Brig JJ Collier, former Chief of the General Staff of
Автор: Thompson Название: Merchants of Culture - The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century 2e ISBN: 0745663613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745663616 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 52800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg.
In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S. military rationalizes violence and military occupation as necessary conditions for advancing medical knowledge and saving lives. Terry examines the treatment of war-generated polytrauma, postinjury bionic prosthetics design, and the development of defenses against infectious pathogens, showing how the interdependence between war and biomedicine is interwoven with neoliberal ideals of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. She also outlines the ways in which military-sponsored biomedicine relies on racialized logics that devalue the lives of Afghan and Iraqi citizens and U.S. veterans of color. Uncovering the mechanisms that attach all Americans to war and highlighting their embeddedness and institutionalization in everyday life via the government, media, biotechnology, finance, and higher education, Terry helps lay the foundation for a more meaningful opposition to war.
Автор: Giles, David C. Название: Twenty-first century celebrity ISBN: 1787542122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787542129 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 47420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: David Giles examines digital culture`s impact on established celebrities from traditional media while charting the rise of new forms of celebrity such as vloggers and influencers, offering novel insights on topics such as parasocial relationships, micro-celebrity, memes and celetoids.
In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S. military rationalizes violence and military occupation as necessary conditions for advancing medical knowledge and saving lives. Terry examines the treatment of war-generated polytrauma, postinjury bionic prosthetics design, and the development of defenses against infectious pathogens, showing how the interdependence between war and biomedicine is interwoven with neoliberal ideals of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. She also outlines the ways in which military-sponsored biomedicine relies on racialized logics that devalue the lives of Afghan and Iraqi citizens and U.S. veterans of color. Uncovering the mechanisms that attach all Americans to war and highlighting their embeddedness and institutionalization in everyday life via the government, media, biotechnology, finance, and higher education, Terry helps lay the foundation for a more meaningful opposition to war.
Автор: Fisher Название: Burying America`s World War Dead ISBN: 113836813X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138368132 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 122490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Through an examination of the correspondence between the US government and the families of the dead, this book examines how families fought to ensure that the government gave them what they needed.
Автор: Chaliand Gerard Название: A Global History of War: From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 0520283619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520283619 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Concentrates on the peoples and cultures who have determined how war is conducted and reveals the lasting historical consequences of combat, offering a picture of the major geopolitical and civilizational clashes that have rocked our common history and made us who we are today.
Автор: Lackey Jill Florence Название: American Ethnic Practices in the Twenty-First Century: The Milwaukee Study ISBN: 0739178296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739178294 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 91080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. This qualitative study examines the current strength of ethnicity and the contributions that ethnic practices have made to the wider society.
Автор: Nicole Pope Название: Honor Killings in the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 1137371439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137371430 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Thousands of women are murdered every year by close relatives for allegedly violating an unwritten social code or rebelling against the patriarchal order. The book examines the roots and evolution of honor-based violence, as well as the ongoing struggle to eradicate it worldwide.
Автор: Hansen Mark B. N. Название: Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media ISBN: 022619972X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226199726 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. The author shows that media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world.
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