Criticism of the Western Society & Civilization - Collection 4

Criticism of the Western Society & Civilization - Collection 4:

In this collection we examine "violence" as a major characteristic of the Western society and civilization. Since there are many faces to violence, the upload concentrates on the following issues: hegemony, culture of war, racism, and hate crimes.

It should be noted that since Christianity lies at the roots of the moral system of the West, all previous uploads that discuss violence in Christianity are relevant to our subject here. [see for example the uploads about: Christianity and Religious Persecution; History of the Inquisition; Christianity and Ethics of War; History and Tales of the Crusades; Racism, Slavery and the Bible;.. etc.]

There are 48 titles in this UL distributed over the main directory and 2 subdirectories. The MD contains 10 titles:

- Billon - The Geopolitics of Resource Wars; Resource Dependence, Governance and Violence (2005)

- Carter & Weaver - Violence and the Media (2003)

- Cavanaugh - The Myth of Religious Violence; Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (2009)

- Chari - Superpower Rivalry and Conflict; The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century (2010)

- Clark - Petrodollar Warfare; Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar (2005)

- Comor - Consumption and the Globalization Project (2008)

- Docker - The Origins of Violence; Religion, History and Genocide (2008)

- Gunter & Harrison - Violence on Television; An Analysis of its Amount, Nature, Location and Origin (1998)

- Pahl - Empire of Sacrifice; The Religious Origins of American Violence (2010)

- Roberts - Human Insecurity; Global Structures of Violence (2008)

There are 21 titles in the SD [Hegemony, the Culture of War]:

- Agnew - Hegemony; The New Shape of Global Power (2005)

- Bacevich - The New American Militarism; How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005)

- Bruckner - Tyranny of Guilt; An Essay on Western Masochism (2010)

- Byers & Nolte - US Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003)

- David & Grondin - Hegemony or Empire; The Redefinition of US Power Under George W. Bush (2006)

- Dodge - Inventing Iraq; The Failure of Nation Building and A History Denied (2003)

- Fainaru - Big Boy Rules; America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (2008)

- Fisk - Age of the Warrior; Selected Essays (2008)

- Foot - US Hegemony and International Organizations (2003)

- Hamm - Devastating Society; The Neo-Conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice (2005)

- Johnston - Hegemony and Culture in the Origins of NATO Nuclear First-Use, 1945–1955 (2005)

- Mestrovic - Rules of Engagement; A Social Anatomy of an American War Crime (2008)

- Nordstrom - Shadows of War; Violence Power and International Profiteering in the 21st Century (2004)

- O'Sullivan - Colin Powell, American Power and Intervention from Vietnam to Iraq (2009)

- Plehwe - Neoliberal Hegemony; A Global Critique (2006)

- Porter - Perils of Dominance; Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (2005)

- Savage - Takeover; The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (2007)

- Scahill - Blackwater; The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (2007)

- Seliktar - The Politics of Intelligence and American War with Iraq (2008)

- Stiglitz & Bilmes - The Three Trillion Dollar War; The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (2008)

- Van Creveld - The Culture of War (2008)

And there are 17 titles in the SD [Racism, Hate Crimes]:

- Addison - An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America (2009)

- Bonilla-Silva - Racism Without Racists; Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality (2006)

- Bulmer & Solomos - Racism (1999)

- Daniels - Cyber Racism; White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights (2009)

- Dennis & Dennis - Slaves to Racism; An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia (2008)

- Foote - Shadowed Grounds; America's Landscapes of Violence & Tragedy (2003)

- Hall - Racism in the 21st Century; An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color (2008)

- HRW - We are not the Enemy; Hate Crimes against Arabs and Muslims after 9-11 (2002)

- Hudson - Hate Crimes; Point-Counterpoint (2009)

- Iganski - Hate Crime in the City (2008)

- Lentin - Racism and Anti Racism in Europe (2004)

- McWhorter - Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America (2009)

- Miller - Getting Played; African American Girls, Urban Inequality and Gendered Violence (2008)

- Rucker & Upton - Encyclopedia of American Race Riots (2007)

- Salaita - Anti-Arab Racism in the U.S.A (2006)

- Silverman - Deconstructing the Nation; Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in Modern France (1992)

- Welch - Scapegoats of September 11th_Hate Crimes & State Crimes in the War on Terror (2006)