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War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences
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War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Hardcover - 2012

by Dudziak, Mary

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  • Title War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences
  • Author Dudziak, Mary
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Date 2012-02-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780199775231
  • ISBN 9780199775231 / 0199775230
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Military & Society
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects War, United States - History, Military - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011026311
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.020

From the publisher

On the surface, "wartime" is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called "an age without surrender ceremonies," where it is no longer easy to distinguish between times of war and times of peace.

In this inventive meditation on war, time, and the law, Mary Dudziak argues that wartime is not as discrete a time period as we like to think. Instead, America has been engaged in some form of ongoing overseas armed conflict for over a century. Meanwhile policy makers and the American public continue to view wars as exceptional events that eventually give way to normal peace times. This has two consequences: first, because war is thought to be exceptional, "wartime" remains a shorthand argument justifying extreme actions like torture and detention without trial; and second, ongoing warfare is enabled by the inattention of the American people. More disconnected than ever from the wars their nation is fighting, public disengagement leaves us without political restraints on the exercise of American war powers.

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  • Choice, 08/01/2012, Page 0
  • Christian Century, 05/02/2012, Page 40
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/14/2011, Page 42

About the author

Mary L. Dudziak is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School. Her books include Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey and Cold War Civil Rights.

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