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100		1	_aLAWRENCE Philip K
245		0	_aModernity and war: _bthe creed of absolute violence
260			_aBasingstoke, UK: _bMacmillan Press, _c1997
300			_a206p.
520		3	_aOutlines 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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