Shadows of war : violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century / Carolyn Nordstrom.
Material type: TextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 10.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.Description: xiii, 293 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0520239776 (cloth)
- 0520242416 (pbk.)
- 303.6/6 22
- HM554 .N67 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-282) and index.
Pt. 1. Introductions -- 1. Prologue -- 2. A conversation in a bar at the front -- 3. Making things -- Pt. 2. War -- 4. Finding the front lines -- 5. Violence -- 6. Power -- Pt. 3. Shadows -- 7. Entering the shadows -- 8. A first exploratory definition of the shadows -- 9. The cultures of the shadows : the meat, potatoes, diamonds, and guns of daily life -- Pt. 4. Peace? -- 10. The institutionalization of the shadows : (habits of war mar landscapes of peace) -- 11. The autobiography of a man called Peace -- 12. The time of not-war-not-peace -- 13. Peace -- 14. The problems with peace -- Pt. 5. Dangerous profits -- 15. Ironies in the shadows : (literally) untold profits and a key source of development -- 16. Why don't we study the shadows? -- 17. Epilogue : two sides of the same coin -- Postscript : the war of the month club - Iraq.
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