Watching war /

What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, the author explores the status of warfare as a spect...

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Main Author: Mieszkowski, Jan, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : watching war
  • How to tell a war story
  • The witness under fire
  • Looking at the dead
  • Visions of total war
  • Conclusion : old wars, new wars.