Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence

ISBN-13: 9780714652023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 344 str.

Michael S. Drake; Paul Hirst

Opis

Traces the relations between the organization of violence and social and political order from ancient Rome to early modern Europe. It studies the ways in which authority, obedience and forms of self-conduct were produced by the micro-techniques used to govern violence deployed in different forms of warfare. These issues comprise problematics of military power that are largely neglected by historical sociology and political history. The author shows that the constitution of military power and its relation to wider society has undergone a series of radical, discontinuous and contested shifts in the course of European history, rather than following a pattern of progressive abstraction of violence from society. The text argues that modern presumptions of an ahistorical dichotomy between military and civil society mat thus distort our understanding of the past and perhaps also of the future.

Recenzje

This innovative book will be of significant interest to those studying past and present transformations of military power and their shaping of societies and international relations - Choice

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 Part One: Ancient; Chapter 1 Ancient Rome and Historical Sociology; Chapter 2 The Roman Republic; Chapter 3 The Imperial Order; Chapter 4 From Pax Romana to the Order of Feud; Part 2 Part Two: Medieval; Chapter 5 Medieval History and Historical Sociology; Chapter 6 Encastellation; Chapter 7 Three Orders of Violence; Chapter 8 Medieval Formations: War-State and Law-State; Part 3 Part Three: Late Medieval; Chapter 9 The Hundred Years War; Chapter 10 A Military Domain; Part 4 Part Four: Early Modern; Chapter 11 Two Sources of Military Modernity: Burgundy and the Swiss; Chapter 12 Republic and Monarchy: Two Texts on Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence; Chapter 13 The Early Modern Army and Historical Sociology; Chapter 14 Military Reformations; Chapter 15 Military and Civil Society; Chapter 16 Reflections; Select Bibliography; Index;

O autorze

Michael Drake is a teaching fellow at the School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD in 1998, on which this book is based.