This newest volume in the War and Society series questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history and anthropology.
Introduction; 1: The Force of Two Logics; 2: Colonialism and the Efflorescence of warfare; 3: Insurrection in the Texas Mexican Borderlands; 4: War in Uganda; 5: Warf are in the Lower Omo Valley, Southwestern Ethiopia; 6: Requiem for the Rational War; 7: The Politics of Ethnic Conflict in a Transboundary Context, the Senegal River Valley 1; 8: Ethnicity and Land Tenure in the Sahel; 9: Detour onto the Shining Path