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In this up-to-date account of European warfare since 1815, important treatments of major conflicts - especially World Wars I and II - are combined with insightful analyses of military developments and of their wider political and social contexts. European imperial warfare also receives due attention. European Warfare 1815-2000 recognises war as a topic of major importance in understanding the development of the modern world, particularly Europe. The contributors, all leading experts in their fields, are open to theoretical developments in the subject, but also understand the difficulty of 'fitting' war to any abstract model. Ranging up to the present, this is an original and fascinating volume

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that 'man is a political animal because he is a literary animal'. He goes on to relate this characteristic of 'literarity' to Plato's description of written language as an 'orphan letter', to a process of 'disincorporation' and to a distinction between a 'body' and a 'quasi-body'. These founding assumptions of Rancière's theory of politics have attracted significant attention among commentators. Yet existing commentary on Rancière's work has left a number of key questions unresolved. Does the power of 'literarity' depend on the development of mass literacy, of the institution of literature and the development of the printing press? What, precisely, is the value of the distinction between a 'body' and a 'quasi-body'? Is, as many critics have argued, Rancière's notion of 'literarity' fundamentally ahistorical, falsely universalising and hence politically naive? Through close readings of Rancière's interpretations of Hobbes's Leviathan and Balzac's novel, Le Curé de village, alongside its own reading of an incident in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, this article seeks to elucidate these questions. It argues that 'literarity' does indeed function as a transhistorical constant in Rancière's work but that this does not justify accusations of ahistoricism or naivete.

"Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present. The book engages with the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of war, examining the causes and consequences of conflict beyond national and chronological boundaries. It challenges the dominant Western-centric, technologically focused view of military history and instead emphasises the ranges of circumstances faced by both Western and non-Western powers and the absence of any one direction of development. The chapters present integrated discussions of land, naval and air conflicts, addressing continuities and the ways in which common experiences affected different spheres. This edition revises the text throughout, has increased focus on the developments in the 2000s and 2010s, and adds a new chapter on the 2020s. Supported by a variety of illustrations, maps and case studies, this study is a valuable resource for students of military history and general readers alike"--

""Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment. Readers have been frightened and revolted, yet at the same time fascinated, by stories of crime, assault, death, thievery, kidnapping, murder, rape, scandal, love triangles, and their associated miscreants. Starting in the 1830s this morbid interest in lurid stories fueled the unprecedented growth of sensationalist newspapers that titillated and shocked their many readers. This study of sensationalism describes how newspapers added lurid details of crime, murder, scandal, gossip, and gruesome accidents to their coverage of news events in an effort to attract as many readers as they could. This type of sensationalism in journalism was characterized by hyperbole and exaggerated details. It was purposely meant to grab the attention of the reader and keep him or her reading. For the next hundred years this sensationalized journalism continued, later spilling over into radio and television news. Along the way, the "yellow journalism" wars of the newspapers of the 1880s and 1890s produced bold headlines, sensationalized illustrations, exaggeration of news events, and a scandalous slant to reporting that included false quotes and misleading information. Sensational reporting continued with muckraking reporting in the early 1900s as journalistic crusaders worked to expose municipal corruption, corporate greed, and misconduct in American business."-Provided by publisher"--

The Westminster Lobby correspondents have a special place in both the politics and the mass media of Britain. These journalists dominate the behind-the-scenes reporting of British national politics. In this book, originally published in 1970, Jeremy Tunstall presents the first systematic social science study of the uniquely British phenomenon of Lobby correspondents.The study includes data collected from interviews with the national Lobby correspondents, who also completed lengthy questionnaires. It contains evidence of their careers, political opinions, pay, working conditions, relationships with their employing news organization and political news sources, and on the way in which the correspondents both compete with, and exchange information with, each other. As well as this fascinating empirical data, the book offers an important contribution to the sociology of politics and the mass media, and to the study of organizational intelligence' and the sociology of occupations.There had long centred upon the Lobby correspondents many myths and misconceptions, which Jeremy Tunstall effectively demolishes. (The so-called Lobby rules' were here published for the first time.) Other real dilemmas are, however, revealed: the competing demands of publicity and secrecy; the dilemmas of British politics in which basic principles - such as Parliamentary supremacy and Cabinet secrecy - are daily breached, not only by the correspondents, but also by leading politicians; and the problems of a system of political communication whose obsession with daily news values is so similar to official and academic contributions. With media and politics still very much linked today, this reissue can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.