Modernity and war: (Record no. 45166)
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fixed length control field | 01052cam a2200121 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 0333670264 (hbk.): |
Terms of availability | 42.50 UK |
100 #1 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | LAWRENCE Philip K |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Modernity and war: |
Remainder of title | the creed of absolute violence |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Basingstoke, UK: |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Macmillan Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1997 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 206p. |
520 #3 - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | Outlines the emergence of the modern form of war, from the Napoleanic period to the present day. Reveals how the awesome military potential of the revolution in armaments manufacture was not apparent in the dominant nineteenth-century theories of social progress, which grew out of the Enlightenment. In fact there was a contradiction between Enlightment assumptions concerning human progress and the West's involvement in mass violence. Modernity's image was severely damaged by the Great War but was re-established in the doctrine of strategic air warfare after 1918. This allowed the West to distance itself from the effects of military violence, but modernisy theory has been shattered with the advent of nuclear weapons. |
945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) | |
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s | Y |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dewey Decimal Classification | Mindef Library & Info Centre | Mindef Library & Info Centre | Red-Spot | 15/06/1999 | 355.020904 LAW | 0009841 | 03/01/2024 | 1 | 03/01/2024 | Red Spot |