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[EAN: 9781406775174], Neubuch, [PU: Read Books], BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., War In Our Time, Hans Speier, WAR IN OUR TIME CONTENTS FOREWORD. Almn Johnson 7 INTRODUCTION. Hans Sprier and … Mehr…

[EAN: 9781406775174], Neubuch, [PU: Read Books], BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., War In Our Time, Hans Speier, WAR IN OUR TIME CONTENTS FOREWORD. Almn Johnson 7 INTRODUCTION. Hans Sprier and Alfred Kahler n I. POWER POLITICS AND PEACE PLANS. HcMS SimOUS 19 II. DOMESTIC POLICY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS. Emil Lcderer 43 in. SOVEREIGNTY. Arnold Brecht 58 iv. PROBLEMS OF POPULATION. Hans Staudingcr 78 v. FOODSTUFFS AND RAW MATERIALS. Karl Brandt 105 vi. AUTARCHY. Eduard Heimann 132 VII. THE ECONOMIC MEANING OF CONQUEST. Arthur Feiler 153 VIII. THE COSTS OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. FritZ Leh mann 171 ix. WAR FINANCE. Gerhard Colm 192 x. WAR ECONOMICS. Emil Lcderer 206 XL WAR EXPENDITURES AND ECONOMIC BALANCE. Al fred Kahler 221 XIL LABOR IN WARTIME. Frieda Wunderlich 245 ENEMY PROPERTY IN WAR. Rudolf UttaUCT 269 5 6 CONTENTS xiv. THE PHILOSOPHY OF POWER. Albert Salomon 288 XV. MORALE AND PROPAGANDA. Han SpCtCT 299 XVI. THE CHALLENGE OF WAR TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. Carl Mayer 327 xvn. PEACE FOR OUR TIME. Max Ascoll 348 FOREWORD By ALVIN JOHNSON POLITICAL thought, it has been said, is a by-product o social and institutional change. The formula is no doubt too absolute. Bagehot and Herbert Spencer thought, and thought well, in a period that may justly be called static. But by and large the epochs of fermenting political thought have been epochs of profound changes in the organization of life the Renaissance, the Reformation, the commercial revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the industrial revo lution of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Any chart exhibiting realistically the rate of movement in practical po litical affairs would show the great books clinging for the most part to the peaks of rapid social-evolutionary tempo. We are living in what even the most cautious will describe asan epoch of tremendous changes in economics, in politics, in ethics, in law, in international relations. All things social political appear to be in flux. There is no longer any validity in the most sacred of international contracts, as the betrayal of Czechoslovakia amply proves. That regard for the accepted rules of the game honored even by the red-handed conqueror of old has disappeared without trace. What was once known as treason, the betrayal of ones country to an implacable for eign enemy, is now defended as conservative policy, and the word itself has come to be applied to the attitude of old-7 8 WAR IN OUR TIME fashioned individuals who criticize the traitors. Parties have become transnational. There is a Russian Communist party not only in the democratic countries, but also underground in Germany and Italy. And there are Fascists and Nazis every where, alas, not sufficiently underground. In such an atmosphere it is inevitable that political thinking should be intensified wherever men are free to think at all. The human mind cannot accept the apparent fact of chaos. Mind must, by its very nature, seek out causes, determine directions, expose objectives. It may be cumbered by tradi tions in fact, it is usually so handicapped, while the new is still very new and the old has not yet disappeared into the remote background. And this is fortunate, for history proves abundantly that the new is never so new as it seems. Much carries over from age to age, in institutions as well as in thought. Of all the institutions of our time the one that presents the most revolutionary appearance is war. I do not speak now of the technology of war, of the revolutionary increase in the capacity formass murder, and the equally revolutionary in crease in the cost of killing men, and even infants. Caesar could hew down the soldiers of Ariovistus only in detail, at an estimated cost of twenty-five cents a head. The true-be gotten son of a Mussolini could roast alive a whole village population in Ethiopia, at a cost of 5,000 a head. What more concerns us now is the new phenomenon of total war.<

ISBN: 9781406775174

Paperback, [PU: Read Books], Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing t… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Read Books], Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.<

2007, ISBN: 9781406775174

Brooks Press, Taschenbuch, 364 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-03-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 7012954, 1.02 kg, Geschichte allgemein, Politik & Geschichte, Kategorien, Büc… Mehr…

Brooks Press, Taschenbuch, 364 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-03-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 7012954, 1.02 kg, Geschichte allgemein, Politik & Geschichte, Kategorien, Bücher, Genres, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Brooks Press, 2007<

2007, ISBN: 1406775177

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