War, states, and contention : a comparative historical study / Sidney Tarrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarrow, Sidney G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and war.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Political aspects--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Political aspects--United States.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Political aspects.

France.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Political aspects.

United States.

Italy--Politics and government--1914-1945.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"-disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war's wake to change regimes or even overthrow states. Tarrow draws on evidence from historical and contemporary cases, including revolutionary France, the United States from the Civil War to the anti-Vietnam War movement, Italy after World War I, and the United States during the decade following 9/11.In the twenty-first century, movements are becoming transnational, and globalization and internationalization are moving war beyond conflict between states. The radically new phenomenon is not that movements make war against states but that states make war against movements. Tarrow finds this an especially troublesome development in recent U.S. history. He argues that that the United States is in danger of abandoning the devotion to rights it had expanded through two centuries of struggle and that Americans are now institutionalizing as a "new normal" the abuse of rights in the name of national security. He expands this hypothesis to the global level through what he calls "the international state of emergency."

Contents:

War, states, and contention

War and movements in the building of new states

A movement-state goes to war: France, 1789-799

A movement makes war: civil war and reconstruction

A war makes movements: the strange death of liberal Italy

Endless wars

From statist war to composite wars

Wars at home, 1917-1975

The war at home, 2001-2013

The American state of terror

Contesting hegemony

Internationalization and contention

The dark side of internationalism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801456237

0801456231

9780801479625

0801479622

OCLC:

1080549069