Empire of defense : race and the cultural politics of permanent war / Joseph Darda.
Empire of defense : race and the cultural politics of permanent war / Joseph Darda.
Empire of defense : race and the cultural politics of permanent war / Joseph Darda.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2019/4167
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Language
English
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Physical content
267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: A perpetual wartime footing -- How to tell a permanent war story -- Antiwar liberalism against liberal war -- Dispatches from the drug wars -- Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome with human rights -- The craft of counterinsurgent whiteness -- Epilogue: Defense in the Fifth Domain.
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2019.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a course for decades of permanent conflict. Conflict, which the United States, he argues, ingeniously reframed...
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Full title
Empire of defense : race and the cultural politics of permanent war / Joseph Darda.
Portion of title
Race and the cultural politics of permanent war
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General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-253) and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/4167
Record Identifier
74VKVlR8wmPd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVlR8wmPd
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ISBN
9780226632896 (cloth ; alk. paper)
022663289X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226632926 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
022663292X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
DDC
355.009730904
MMS ID
991024261219502626
