The Costs of War (eBook, PDF)

America's Pyrrhic Victories
Redaktion: Denson, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351484459
• Artikelnr.: 48800750

Autorenporträt

John Denson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
1. War and American Freedom
2. Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms
3. Defenders of the Republic: The Anti-Interventionist Tradition in American Politics
4. America's Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861
5. Rethinking Lincoln
6. Did the South Have to Fight?
7. War
Reconstruction
and the End of the Old Republic
8. The Spanish-American War as Trial Run
or Empire as Its Own Justification
9. World War I: The Turning Point
10. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals
11. A Common Design: Propaganda and World War
12. Rethinking Churchill
13. The Old Breed and the Costs of War
14. War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America: Conscription as the Keystone
15. The Military as an Engine of Social Change
16. His Country's Own Heart's-Blood: American Writers Confront War
17. The Culture of War
18. Is Modem Democracy Warlike?
19. War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation
20. Time Preference
Government
and the Process of De-Civilization: From Monarchy to Democracy
Appendices
Recommended Reading
About the Contributors
Index