The hidden structure of violence
Subtitle: who benefits from global violence and war
By: by Marc Pilisuk and Jennifer Achord Rountree
Contributors: Rountree, Jennifer Achord, author
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781583675427; 9781583675434
Subjects: Violence; War; Cost of War
Description: "The Hidden Structure of Violence marshals vast amounts of evidence to examine the costs of direct violence, including military preparedness and the social reverberations of war, alongside the costs of structural violence, expressed as poverty and chronic illness. It also documents the relatively small number of people and corporations responsible for facilitating the violent status quo, whether by setting the range of permissible discussion or benefiting directly as financiers and manufacturers. The result is a stunning indictment of our violent world and a powerful critique of the ways through which violence is reproduced on a daily basis, whether at the highest levels of the state or in the deepest recesses of the mind."--Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The costs of modern war; title: Killing : war and the minds of men; title: The hidden structure of violence; title: People, farmland, water, and narcotics; title: Networks of power; title: Realpolitik: strategies and tactics for winning; title: Disinformation; title: Values and habits that maintain a violent system; title: The evolution of corporate power to inflict; title: Violence and injustice : dangers and hopes.