Governing From the Skies : A Global History of Aerial Bombing / Thomas Hippler ; Translated by David Fernbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hippler, Thomas, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Fernbach, David, translator.

Standardized Title:

Gouvernement du ciel. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Bombing, Aerial--History.

Bombing, Aerial.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 218 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

English language edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 2017.

Summary:

With air war it is now the people who are directly taken as target, the people as support for the war effort, and the sovereign people identified with the state. This amounts to a democratisation of war, and so blurs the distinction between war and peace. This is the political shift that has led us today to a world governance under United States hegemony defined as 'perpetual low-intensity war', which is presently striking regions such as Yemen and Pakistan, but which tomorrow could spread to the whole world population. Air war thus brings together the major themes of the past century: the nationalization of societies and war, democracy and totalitarianism, colonialism and decolonization, Third World-ism and globalization, and the welfare state and its decline in the face of neoliberalism. The history of aerial bombing offers a privileged perspective for writing a global history of the twentieth century.

Contents:

1 Land, Sea, and Air 1

2 Towards Perpetual Peace 19

3 The Knights of the Sky 37

4 The Colonial Matrix 56

5 Civilization, Cosmopolitism, and Democracy 77

6 People and Populace 101

7 Philosophy of the Bomb 118

8 Making and Unmaking a People 140

9 'Revolutionary War' beneath the Nuclear Shield 165

10 World Governance and Perpetual War 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hippler, Thomas, 1972- author. Governing from the skies

ISBN:

9781784785956

1784785954

OCLC:

948558434