The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic VictoriesRoutledge, 2017 M07 5 - 450 páginas The greatest accomplishment of Western civilization is arguably the achievement of individual liberty through limits on the power of the state. In the war-torn twentieth century, we rarely hear that one of the main costs of armed conflict is long-term loss of liberty to winners and losers alike. Beyond the obvious and direct costs of dead and wounded soldiers, there is the lifetime struggle of veterans to live with their nightmares and their injuries; the hidden economic costs of inflation, debts, and taxes; and more generally the damages caused to our culture, our morality, and to civilization at large. The new edition is now available in paperback, with a number of new essays. It represents a large-scale collective effort to pierce the veils of myth and propaganda to reveal the true costs of war, above all, the cost to liberty.Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become limited in scope and power. In the spirit of these theorems by Mises, the contributors to this volume consider the costs of war generally and assess specific corrosive effects of major American wars since the Revolution. The first section includes chapters on the theoretical and institutional dimensions of the relationship between war and society, including conscription, infringements on freedom, the military as an engine of social change, war and literature, and the right of citizens to bear arms. The second group includes reconsiderations of Lincoln and Churchill, an analysis of the anti-interventionist idea in American politics, a discussion of the meaning of the "just war," an assessment of how World War I changed the course of Western civilization, and finally two eyewitness accounts of the true horrors of actual combat by |
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... Civil War; Mark Twain's "War Prayer" composed after he became opposed to the Spanish– American War; and, Representative Claude Kitchin's courageous speech in Congress opposing President Wilson's demand for a declaration of war in World ...
... Civil War; Mark Twain's "War Prayer" composed after he became opposed to the Spanish– American War; and, Representative Claude Kitchin's courageous speech in Congress opposing President Wilson's demand for a declaration of war in World ...
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... Civil War was the first modern, total war which showed the destructiveness of modern machinery and technology. However, it was World War I and its trench warfare which shocked the entire world. The trenches became known as the “meat ...
... Civil War was the first modern, total war which showed the destructiveness of modern machinery and technology. However, it was World War I and its trench warfare which shocked the entire world. The trenches became known as the “meat ...
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... civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration. If it does not lead to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more ...
... civil government; it must almost compulsorily concentrate the direction of all men and the management of all things in the hands of the administration. If it does not lead to despotism by sudden violence, it prepares men for it more ...
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... Civil War, in the 17th century, occurred primarily because Charles I violated this long tradition and tried to impose taxes on the people without the consent or authorization of their elected representatives in Parliament. The people's ...
... Civil War, in the 17th century, occurred primarily because Charles I violated this long tradition and tried to impose taxes on the people without the consent or authorization of their elected representatives in Parliament. The people's ...
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... Civil War was such a major turning point in American history—indeed, nearly all subsequent themes in this book stem from actions undertaken then—we have multiple perspectives on it here. Richard Gamble provides details of how Lincoln ...
... Civil War was such a major turning point in American history—indeed, nearly all subsequent themes in this book stem from actions undertaken then—we have multiple perspectives on it here. Richard Gamble provides details of how Lincoln ...
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2 Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms | 53 |
The AntiInterventionist Tradition in American Politics | 67 |
1775 and 1861 | 119 |
5 Rethinking Lincoln | 135 |
6 Did the South Have to Fight? | 145 |
7 War Reconstruction and the End of the Old Republic | 155 |
8 The SpanishAmerican War as Trial Run or Empire as Its Own Justification | 169 |
Conscription as the Keystone | 375 |
15 The Military as an Engine of Social Change | 389 |
American Writers Confront War | 399 |
17 The Culture of War | 417 |
18 Is Modern Democracy Warlike? | 425 |
Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation | 433 |
From Monarchy to Democracy | 455 |
Appendices | 495 |
The Turning Point | 203 |
Power and the Intellectuals | 249 |
Propaganda and World War | 301 |
12 Rethinking Churchill | 321 |
13 The Old Breed and the Costs of War | 361 |
Recommended Reading | 509 |
About the Contributors | 517 |
Index | 519 |
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