The costs of war : America's pyrrhic victories / edited with an introduction by John V. Denson.
| Other author | Denson, John V., 1936- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 2nd expanded ed. |
| Publication Info | New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction publishers, ©1999. |
| Description | xxxii, 535 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | War and American freedom / John V. Denson -- Classical Republicanism and the right to bear arms / Samuel Francis -- Defenders of the republic : the anti-interventionalist tradition in American politics / Justin Raimondo -- America's two just wars : 1775 and 1861 / Murray N. Rothbard -- Rethinking Lincoln / Richard Gamble -- Did the South have to fight? / Thomas Fleming -- War, reconstruction, and the end of the old republic / Clyde Wilson -- Spanish-American War as trial run, or empire as its own justification / Joseph R. Stromberg -- World War I : the turning point / Ralph Raico -- World War I as fulfillment : power and the intellectuals / Murray N. Rothbard -- Common design : propaganda and world war / David Gordon -- Rethinking Churchill / Ralph Raico -- Old breed and the costs of war / Eugene B. Sledge -- War and Leviathan in twentieth-century America : conscription as the keystone / Robert Higgs -- Military as an engine of social change / Allan Carlson -- His country's own heart's-blood : American writers confront war / Bill Kauffman -- Culture of war / Paul Fussell -- Is modern democracy warlike? / Paul Gottfried -- War and the money machine : concealing the costs of war beneath the veil of inflation / Joseph T. Salerno -- Time preference, government, and the process of de-civilization : from monarchy to democracy / Hans-Hermann Hoppe. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-516) and index. |
| LCCN | 98008759 |
| ISBN | 0765804875 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HM36.5 .C66 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |