The sociology of war and violence
- Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2010
- x, 363 pages ; 25 cm
x, 363 pages ; 25 cm Contents: Part I. Collective violence and sociological theory. 1. War and violence in classical social thought -- 2. The contemporary sociology of organised violence -- Part II. War in time and space. 3. War and violence before modernity -- 4. Organized violence and modernity -- 5. The social geographies of warfare -- Part III. Warfare : ideas and practices. 6. Nationalism and war -- 7. War propaganda and solidarity -- Part IV. War, violence and social divisions. 8. Social stratification, warfare and violence -- 9. Gendering of war -- Part V. Organised violence in the 21st century. 10. New wars?