Stripping bare the body : politics, violence, war /: politics, violence, war. (©2009)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Stripping bare the body : politics, violence, war /: politics, violence, war. (©2009)
- Main Title:
- Stripping bare the body : politics, violence, war
- Further Information:
- Note: Mark Danner.
- Other Names:
- Danner, Mark, 1958-
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Louis Begley -- Introduction / by author -- Beyond the mountains -- La parenthèse -- The legacy -- The mountains -- The saddest story -- How not to stop a war -- Cleansing, camps, and genocide -- "Safe areas" and the politics of gesture -- Explosion in the marketplace -- The great betrayal -- To the killing fields -- Operation Storm and the cold peace -- Coda: Endgame in Kosovo -- Marooned in the Cold War -- The forever war -- The battleground in the American mind -- Struggles of democracy and empire -- How not to win a war -- Delusions in Baghdad -- Abu Ghraib : the hidden story -- A doctrine left behind -- We are all torturers now -- The real election -- The secret way to war -- Taking stock of the forever war -- The war of the imagination -- Words in a time of war -- Voices from the black sites -- The Red Cross report and what it means -- Into the light? : torture, power, and the real American exception -- Afterword: The erotic pull of the strange.
- Publisher Details:
- New York, NY : Nation Books
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Copyright Date:
- 2009
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 626 pages), maps
- Subjects:
- 355.0209045
Military history, Modern -- 20th century
Military history, Modern -- 21st century
Violence -- Political aspects
Torture -- Political aspects
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Militarism -- United States
Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 1989-
Haiti -- History -- 1986-
Iraq War, 2003-
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Military policy
Military Science
History
Political Science
HISTORY -- Military -- Other
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General
Haiti -- History -- 1986-
Balkan Peninsula -- History -- 1989-
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
United States -- Military policy
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780786744572
- Related ISBNs:
- 078674457X
9781568584133
156858413X - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-604) and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.131953
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