Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century

by Carolyn Nordstrom

Book Overview

In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century. Shadows of War is grounded in ethnographic research carried...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242416
• ISBN13: 9780520242418
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"