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پدید آورنده
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رده
HV6432.7 .M486 2008eb
HV6432
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7
.
M486
2008eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0226522105
(Number (ISBN
1282070061
(Number (ISBN
9780226522104
(Number (ISBN
9781282070066
Erroneous ISBN
0226522083
Erroneous ISBN
9780226522081
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b781856
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Civic war & the corruption of the citizen /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Peter Alexander Meyers.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Chicago Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
From shock to terror -- From terror to war -- The circle of war and emergency -- The norm of complicity and the regeneration of emergency through violence -- The Cold War is not over -- The distemper of monocracy -- The Cold War today -- Today's Cold War in the system of opportunism -- Civic war and the monocratic tendency -- Two poles of power : monocratic omnipotence and Jeffersonian justification -- Phases of communication : secrets, lies, and publicness -- The export of "moral clarity" -- The Cold War comes home : the revival of Reaganism -- The breeding ground of monocracy -- The constitution of power and the corruption of the citizen after September 11th.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that this Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous. With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time--"everything changed on 9/11!"--Is false and pernicious. By contrast, Civic War and the Corru.
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207006
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Civic war & the corruption of the citizen.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Civic war and the corruption of the citizen
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cold War.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001-- Influence.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
HISTORY.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Politics and government, 2001-
United States, Politics and government, 20th century.
United States.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
HIS-- 036070
JPWL
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
973
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931
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HV6432
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7
Book number
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M486
2008eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Meyers, Peter Alexander.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201206203036.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
pn
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Electronic name
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