Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Fernbach, David

Description

1. xxii, 218 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. With air war it is now the people who are directly taken as target, the people as support for the war effort, and the sovereign people identified with the state. This amounts to a democratisation of war, and so blurs the distinction between war and peace. This is the political shift that has led us today to a world governance under United States hegemony defined as 'perpetual low-intensity war', which is presently striking regions such as Yemen and Pakistan, but which tomorrow could spread to the whole world population. Air war thus brings together the major themes of the past century: the nationalization of societies and war, democracy and totalitarianism, colonialism and decolonization, Third World-ism and globalization, and the welfare state and its decline in the face of neoliberalism. The history of aerial bombing offers a privileged perspective for writing a global history of the twentieth century.

Uniform title

1. Gouvernement du ciel. English

Alternative title

1. Gouvernement du ciel.

Subject

1. Bombing, Aerial > History

Call number

1. JFD 17-3662

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Hippler, Thomas, 1972- author.

Title

1. Governing From the Skies : a Global History of Aerial Bombing / Thomas Hippler ; Translated by David Fernbach.

Publisher

1. London : Verso, 2017.

Edition

1. English language edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Fernbach, David, translator.

Other form:

1. Online version: Hippler, Thomas, 1972- Governing from the skies. London : Verso, 2017 9781784785987 (DLC) 2016033523

LCCN

1. 2016033495

Other standard identifier

1. 40026792389

ISBN

1. 9781784785956 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
2. 1784785954 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 17-3662