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War in social thought : Hobbes to the present / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl ; translated by Alex Skinner.

Author/creator Joas, Hans, 1948-
Other author/creatorKnöbl, Wolfgang, 1963-
Other author/creatorSkinner, Alex.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionix, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Uniform titleKriegsverdrangung. English
Contents Introduction -- War and peace before sociology: social theorizing on violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic wars -- The long peace of the nineteenth century and the birth of sociology -- The classical figures of sociology and the great seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century -- Sociology and social theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970s -- After modernization theory: historical sociology and the bellicose constitution of Western modernity -- After the East-West conflict: democratization, state collapse, and empire building.
General note"First published in Germany under the title Kriegsverdrangung: Ein Problem in der Geschichte der Sozialtheorie, [published by] Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-313) and indexes.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012005612
ISBN9780691150840 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0691150842 (cloth : alk. paper)

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