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The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts
Catherine Lutz (Ed.)
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Description for The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts
Paperback. A comprehensive survey of the effect of US military bases abroad, including the movements against them. Editor(s): Lutz, Catherine. Series: Transnational Institute. Num Pages: 368 pages, 4 maps + 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JWK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
This book examines US military bases across the globe including those in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. It documents the massive political, economic and environmental impacts that these outposts have and studies the movements and campaigns against them.
US Military bases form a huge global system but are poorly understood by those not directly involved in their operation. The Pentagon is currently relocating many bases to fit with the strategies of pre-emption and resource control and this has intensified existing conflicts between the military and local people. The authors of this volume show how these seemingly local ... Read more
This book examines US military bases across the globe including those in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. It documents the massive political, economic and environmental impacts that these outposts have and studies the movements and campaigns against them.
US Military bases form a huge global system but are poorly understood by those not directly involved in their operation. The Pentagon is currently relocating many bases to fit with the strategies of pre-emption and resource control and this has intensified existing conflicts between the military and local people. The authors of this volume show how these seemingly local ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Series
Transnational Institute
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745328324
SKU
V9780745328324
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99-50
About Catherine Lutz (Ed.)
Catherine A. Lutz is Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies and Anthropology at Brown University. She has authored or edited a number of books, including The Bases of Empire (Pluto, 2008), Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century (Beacon Press, 2001) and Reading National Geographic (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
Reviews for The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts
'A powerful assessment of the world wide network of US Military bases. In studying the impact of militarism on people's lives. This book [makes] a major contribution'
Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University
Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University