Life, Death, and the Western Way of War

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers--once regarded as simple fighting tools--became the far less expendable beings that we know today.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Combat, body disposal, and war memory


• 2: Bare death


• 3: Sacrificial death


• 4: Irrecoverable death


• 5: Epilogue: the further erosion of western military power

About the author

Lorenzo Zambernardi is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna. His work has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, History of European Ideas, International Political Sociology, Information, Communication & Society, International Politics, International Relations, Political Studies Review, Review of International Studies, and The Washington Quarterly. He is the author of the monograph I limiti della potenza. Etica e politica nella teoria internazionale di Hans J. Morgenthau (Il Mulino, 2010).

Summary

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers--once regarded as simple fighting tools--became the far less expendable beings that we know today.

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo Zambernardi, Lorenzo (Associate Professor of Polit Zambernardi
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2022
• EAN: 9780192858245
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285824-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, International Relations, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Armed Conflict