ECH 2330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wage War, Mass Mobilization, Killing Machine
14 Dec 2015
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Lecture 14 key concepts war that makes societies. War is not something that can destroy societies, but it is something. War has made states as much as states has made war. War is where rights come most clearly into view. What are some of the ways and: if war is a social process then we must think about it politically, knights symbolic economy they had reasons for fighting, what symbolically, culturally, economically conflict meant to them. Renaissance: changing way that people saw themselves individualism, money in the way that it changed war hiring people to be a part of your army raising forces. Absolutist wage war against feudal retainers: led to the rise of monarchies making their own private armies to, modern france, result of this process, intrinsic limits. Modern revolution 2 -> mass everything: the kinds of wars were limited, 1) political revolution around nationalism and democracy.
