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Author : Alejandro Colás and Bryan Mabee
Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits, and Empires by : Alejandro Colás and Bryan Mabee
Download or read book Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits, and Empires written by Alejandro Colás and Bryan Mabee. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alejandro Colás
Release : 2011-10
Genre : Imperialism
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Book Synopsis Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires by : Alejandro Colás
Download or read book Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits and Empires written by Alejandro Colás. This book was released on 2011-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world or as marginal nuisances to states themselves. The prevalence and centrality of private violence in the past and present warns against such complacency. An increasing academic interest in 'non-state' or private violence in International Relations has been mirrored in the world of policy as terrorists, insurgents, private military companies, and more recently pirates, have all become the focus of international security. Despite the increasing interest, the historical analysis of such actors has not been at a premium. This volume seeks to rectify this gap. Setting private violence in an historical context the contributors consider the development of private violence in time, as well as offering a comparative analysis of its unfolding across different geographical planes. The nine chapters that form the volume critically explore the lives of pirates, privateers, mercenaries, warlords, bandits and smugglers - groups of men (and occasionally women) that have sustained themselves and their kin principally through recourse to violence, but generally from outside or on the margins of public, state authority. They underline ways in which private violence acts both as a threat to existing forms of social order, and as a vehicle of empowerment for the established political authorities.
Author : Tarak Barkawi
Release : 2017-05-27
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Soldiers of Empire by : Tarak Barkawi
Download or read book Soldiers of Empire written by Tarak Barkawi. This book was released on 2017-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign. Going beyond conventional narratives, Barkawi studies soldiers in transnational context, from recruitment and training to combat and memory. Drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, the book critiques the 'Western way of war' from a postcolonial perspective. Barkawi reconceives soldiers as cosmopolitan, their battles irreducible to the national histories that monopolise them. This book will appeal to those interested in the Second World War, armed forces and the British Empire, and students and scholars of military sociology and history, South Asian studies and international relations.
Author : Janice E. Thomson
Release : 1996-07-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns by : Janice E. Thomson
Download or read book Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns written by Janice E. Thomson. This book was released on 1996-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.
Author : Peter Lehr
Release : 2019-07-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Pirates by : Peter Lehr
Download or read book Pirates written by Peter Lehr. This book was released on 2019-07-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his lively, vivid history of pirates, Lehr finds some striking continuities from ancient to modern times.” —Foreign Affairs A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year In the twenty-first century, pirates have regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to an odd combination of a blockbuster film franchise and a dramatic rise in piracy around the Horn of Africa. In this global history of the phenomenon, maritime terrorism and piracy expert Peter Lehr casts fresh light on pirates. Ranging from the Vikings and Wako pirates in the Middle Ages to modern-day Somali pirates, Lehr delves deep into what motivates pirates and how they operate. He also illuminates the state’s role in the development of piracy throughout history: from privateers sanctioned by Queen Elizabeth to pirates operating off the coast of Africa taking the law into their own hands. After exploring the structural failures that create fertile ground for pirate activities, Lehr evaluates the success of counter-piracy efforts—and the reasons behind its failures. “Informative and often entertaining . . . Lehr traces the global history of piracy, quoting judiciously from an array of historians and sources to make his case” —The Times “Groundbreaking . . . provides a detailed analysis of the causes of piracy [and] reveals the operations of pirates ignored in most previous histories.” —David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag “Policymakers would do well to read it, as would aspiring pirates in search of career advice.” —Financial Times
