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ISBN: | 9780804785013 0804785015 0804782393 9780804782395 9780804782395 9780804782401 0804782407
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: | What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of military spectatorship took shape in Napoleonic Europe, Watching War explores the status of warfare as a spectacle unfolding before a mass audience. By showing that the battlefield was a virtual phenomenon long before the invention of photography, film, or the Internet, this book proposes that the unique character of modern conflicts has been a product of imaginary as much as material forces.>
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Other form: | Print version: Mieszkowski, Jan, 1968- Watching war. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012
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