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Author Pilisuk, Marc, author.

Title The hidden structure of violence : who benefits from global violence and war / by Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Achord Rountree.

Publication Info. New York : Monthly Review Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The costs of modern war -- Killing : war and the minds of men -- The hidden structure of violence -- People, farmland, water, and narcotics -- Networks of power -- Realpolitik: strategies and tactics for winning -- Disinformation -- Values and habits that maintain a violent system -- The evolution of corporate power to inflict -- Violence and injustice : dangers and hopes.
Summary Acts of violence assume many forms: they may travel bythe arc of a guided missile or in the language of an economic policy, and theymay leave behind a smoldering village or a starved child. The all-pervasivenessof violence makes it seem like an unavoidable, and ultimately incomprehensible, aspect of the modern world. But, in this detailed and expansive book, Marc Pilisuk and Jen Rountree demonstrateotherwise. Widespread violence, they argue, is in fact an expression of theunderlying social order, and whether it is carried out by military forces or bypatterns of investment, the aim is to streng.
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Subject Violence.
Violence.
War, Cost of.
War, Cost of.
War.
War.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rountree, Jennifer Achord, author.
Other Form: Print version: Pilisuk, Marc. Hidden Structure of Violence : Who Benefits from Global Violence and War. New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2015 9781583675427
ISBN 9781583675458 (electronic book)
1583675450 (electronic book)
9781583675434