Modernity and war: (Record no. 45166)

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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.
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total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
    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