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Title: The Spoils of War

The Spoils of War

The Bright and Bitter Fruits of Human Conflict

by Jürgen Kleist (Volume editor) Bruce A. Butterfield (Volume editor)
©1997 Monographs XIII, 223 Pages
History & Political Science
Series: The Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities, Volume 5

Summary

The Spoils of War includes essays by fourteen scholars in a variety of disciplines who consider both the destructive and constructive forces of war from the days of the Greeks and Trojans to medieval times, from the American Civil War through World Wars I and II, to the Cold War and Vietnam, and even the recent uprisings in Chiapas.

Details

Pages
XIII, 223
Publication Year
1997
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820433875
Language
English
Keywords
essays forces Vietnam Chiapas
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1997. XIII, 223 pp.

Biographical notes

Jürgen Kleist (Volume editor) Bruce A. Butterfield (Volume editor)

The Editors: Jürgen Kleist is the author of Das Dilemma der Kunst (Peter Lang, 1989), the novella Nietzsche in Turin (1992), and several short stories that have appeared in anthologies. He holds the Ph.D. in German literature from the University of California, San Diego, and currently is an associate professor of German at SUNY Plattsburgh. Bruce A. Butterfield is a professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century fiction and pursues research and writing on contemporary Canadian literature. He is also book-review editor of the journal The American Review of Canadian Studies. Both are editors of Mythology. From Ancient to Post-Modern (Peter Lang, 1992); Breakdowns: The Destiny of the Twentieth Century (Peter Lang, 1994); Re-naming the Landscape (Peter Lang, 1994); and Fin de Siècle: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Comparisons and Perspectives (Peter Lang, 1996).

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