The Imperial Security State

The Imperial Security State
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781139510448
ISBN-13 : 1139510444
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Imperial Security State by : James Hevia

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and the maintenance of empire. James Hevia's innovative study focuses on route books and military reports produced by the British Indian Army military intelligence between 1880 and 1940. He shows that together these formed a renewable and authoritative archive that was used to train intelligence officers, to inform civilian policy makers and to provide vital information to commanders as they approached the battlefield. The strategic, geographical, political and ethnographical knowledge that was gathered not only framed imperial strategies towards colonized areas to the east but also produced the very object of intervention: Asia itself. Finally, the book addresses the long-term impact of the security regime, revealing how elements of British colonial knowledge have continued to influence contemporary tactics of counterinsurgency in twenty-first-century Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Imperial Security State

The Imperial Security State
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780521896085
ISBN-13 : 0521896088
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Imperial Security State by : James Louis Hevia

An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.

The Imperial Security State

The Imperial Security State
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : 1139518445
ISBN-13 : 9781139518444
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Imperial Security State by : Professor James Hevia

An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.

Saving the Security State

Saving the Security State
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9780822372554
ISBN-13 : 082237255X
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Saving the Security State by : Inderpal Grewal

In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the “exceptional citizens”—primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the country from racialized others. Under advanced neoliberalism, Grewal shows, others in the United States strive to become exceptional by participating in humanitarian projects that compensate for the security state's inability to provide for the welfare of its citizens. In her analyses of microfinance programs in the global South, security moms, the murders at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the post-9/11 crackdown on Muslim charities, Grewal exposes the fissures and contradictions at the heart of the US neoliberal empire and the centrality of race, gender, and religion to the securitized state.

Empires of Intelligence

Empires of Intelligence
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 447
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ISBN-10 : 9780520251175
ISBN-13 : 0520251172
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Empires of Intelligence by : Martin Thomas

'Empires of Intelligence' argues that colonial control in British and French empires depended on an elabroate security apparatus. Thomas shows the crucial role of intelligence gathering in maintaining imperial control in the years before decolonization.

The Emergency State

The Emergency State
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780143122975
ISBN-13 : 0143122975
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Emergency State by : David C. Unger

From the New York Times’s veteran foreign policy editorialist, a lucid analysis of the harm caused by America’s increasingly misdirected national security state America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike have assembled an increasingly complicated, ineffective, and outdated network of security services. Yet this pursuit has not only damaged our democratic institutions and undermined our economic strengths; it has fundamentally failed to make us safer. In The Emergency State, senior New York Times writer David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of America’s bipartisan obsession with achieving absolute national security and traces a series of missed opportunities—from the end of World War II through the presidency of Barack Obama—when we could have rethought our defense strategy but did not. Provocative, insightful, and refreshingly nonpartisan, this is the definitive untold story of how America became so vulnerable—and how it can build real security again.

Menace to Empire

Menace to Empire
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9780520397873
ISBN-13 : 0520397878
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Menace to Empire by : Moon-Ho Jung

"Menace to Empire is a profoundly original and ambitious book, a history of race and empire that traces both the colonial violence and the anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Author Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence colonized subjects, from the Philippines and Hawai'i to California and beyond, whose anticolonial aspirations challenged US claims to sovereignty. Jung examines how the contradictions of race, nation, and empire generated waves of revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific--anticolonial, antiracist, and labor movements that exposed and confronted the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and brutally suppressed those movements by racializing particular politics and distinct communities as seditious, exaggerating fears of pan-Asian solidarities and sowing anti-Asian racism under the guise of national security. Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history to highlight the critical role of colonial violence in the formation of radical movements and the antiradical origins of anti-Asian racism. Radicalized by their opposition to the US empire and racialized as threats to US security, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary politics that gave rise to the national security state--the heart and soul of the US empire ever since"--Provided by publisher.

Gore Vidal History of the National Security State

Gore Vidal History of the National Security State
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 144
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ISBN-10 : 1494887991
ISBN-13 : 9781494887995
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Gore Vidal History of the National Security State by : Real Network

In Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State & Vidal on America, TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay and the acclaimed essayist, screenwriter and novelist Gore Vidal discuss the historical events that led to the establishment of the massive military-industrial-security complex and the political culture that gave us the "Imperial Presidency."

Taming the Imperial Imagination

Taming the Imperial Imagination
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9781107118058
ISBN-13 : 1107118050
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Taming the Imperial Imagination by : Martin J. Bayly

A new perspective on empire, international relations and foreign policy through attention to British colonial knowledge on Afghanistan from 1808 to 1878.

The Quest for Security

The Quest for Security
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9781108498746
ISBN-13 : 1108498744
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Quest for Security by : Jesse Tumblin

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovative study reveals the colonial backstory of a century that witnessed total war, resulting in new political norms that enthrone 'national security' as the dominating feature of contemporary politics.