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BL
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1000714
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b755084
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| Main Entry
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Price, Stuart,1958-
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| Title & Author
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Brute reality : : power, discourse and the mediation of war /\ Stuart Price.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York, NY :: Pluto,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (x, 223 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1849641889
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: 9781849641883
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0745320791
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0745320805
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9780745320793
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9780745320809
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-215) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : the composition of the 'terror war' -- From the 'War on Terror' to 'overseas contingency operations' -- War, terror and the real -- Media and the reproduction of meaning -- Surveillance, authority and linguistic categories -- Film, bureaucracy and the gendered protagonist -- Economic transformation, protest and the state -- Conclusion : democracy and the terror war.
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| Abstract
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Brute Reality is a fascinating analysis of the attempts by Western countries to justify their increasingly violent foreign-policy agendas and assert the contradictory interests of a transnational elite.
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Mass media and war.
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National security-- Social aspects.
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Power (Social sciences)
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War and society.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-- Social aspects.
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Mass media and war.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Peace.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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War and society.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.66
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| LC Classification
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HM554.P75 2010eb
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