Social Militarisation and the Power of History : A Study of Scholarly Perspectives

by Harrison, Dick

• ISBN13: 9789189116085
• ISBN10: 9189116089
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Paul & Co Pub Consortium

Summary

This book examines the scholarly treatment of three macro-regions: East Aasia, Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica. The early medieval history of Europe is also analysed from the point of view of militarisation

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(4)
Introduction	11	(1)
Charles XII and Saddam Hussein	11	(5)
The Other, Orientalism, and the past	16	(5)
Militarism and social militarisation	21	(5)
Material	26	(3)
East Asia	29	(52)
China according to Otto Franke	30	(13)
China according to Wolfram Ederhard	43	(5)
John King Fairbank's China: a system of imperial bipolarity	48	(2)
A land of bureaucrats	50	(8)
Japan: a parallel to Europe and a contrast to China?	58	(8)
John W. Hall and the history of the lords of Bizen	66	(3)
A never-ending bipolarity?	69	(3)
Korea	72	(9)
Southeast Asia	81	(32)
Coedes and Hall: in the shadow of colonialism	82	(5)
Religious and cultural spheres in colonial and post-war historiography	87	(5)
The emergence of an economic theme: trade and commercial networks	92	(7)
The central mainland	99	(10)
Vietnam	109	(4)
Mesoamerica	113	(34)
An age of priests and an age of warriors	114	(6)
Maya civilisation as a Pre-Columbian Utopia	120	(5)
From Utopia to a jungle of blood	125	(8)
A forest of soldiers	133	(4)
Teotihuacan	137	(6)
Zapotecs and Mixtecs	143	(4)
Europe: the passage from antiquity to the Middle Ages	147	(54)
From senators to warlords	149	(5)
The emergence of a landed warrior stratum	154	(2)
A merging of hierarchies	156	(2)
Arimanniae and castra -- the militarisation of the landscape?	158	(5)
The Septimanian war	163	(4)
Was the killing well organised?	167	(4)
Social militarisation among traders and nuns	171	(2)
The gradual militarisation of Christian thought	173	(5)
The militarisation of angels and saints	178	(3)
Holy warfare	181	(20)
Conclusion	185	(16)
Bibliography	201	(18)
Sources	201	(1)
Secondary works	202	(17)
Notes	219	(18)
Index	237