What draws our species to war and makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Social critic Ehrenreich plumbs the mystery of the human attraction to violence, taking the reader on a journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the spectacular human sacrifices of precolonial Central America to the carnage and holocaust of 20th century "total war". She traces the evolution of war from prehistoric forms of socially-sanctioned violence to the mass "religion" which nationalism has become and shows the persistence of ancient fears in the most modern rituals and passions of war.
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Vendeur : Bookbot, Prague, Rébublique tchèque
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Farbtonänderung; Riss größer als 1 cm. What draws our species to war and makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Social critic Ehrenreich plumbs the mystery of the human attraction to violence, taking the reader on a journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the spectacular human sacrifices of precolonial Central America to the carnage and holocaust of 20th century total war. She traces the evolution of war from prehistoric forms of socially-sanctioned violence to the mass religion which nationalism has become and shows the persistence of ancient fears in the most modern rituals and passions of war. N° de réf. du vendeur 735d383c-8cd4-40c4-9007-16b71cdf4466
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Vendeur : SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardback in jacket 1997. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. PAGE BLOCK TOP EDGE HAS DUST SPOTTING. Jacket is complete. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Q69. Blood Rites: Origins and the History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich. Virago Press, London. N° de réf. du vendeur 031023
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