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Governing from the Skies - A Global History of Aerial Bombing (Hardcover)
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Governing from the Skies - A Global History of Aerial Bombing (Hardcover)
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Ever since its invention, aviation has embodied the dream of
perpetual peace between nations, yet the other side of this is the
nightmare of an unprecedented deadly power. A power initially
deployed on populations that the colonizers deemed too restive, it
was then used to strike the cities of Europe and Japan during World
War II. 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.
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