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ISBN: PB: 9780226632926

ISBN: HB: 9780226632896

University of Chicago Press

June 2019

264 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

9 halftones

PB:
£21,00
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HB:
£62,00
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Empire of Defense

Race and the Cultural Politics of Permanent War

"Empire of Defense" is nothing less than an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American warfare. Joseph Darda exposes how the post-World War II formation of the Department of Defense and the subsequent Korean War set a course for decades of permanent conflict. The United States, Darda shows, effectively ceased to wage war: instead, in an ingenious reframing, it cast itself as the world's great defender of liberal democracy".Empire of Defense" shows that a string of rationales for war from the 1940s to the present – anticommunism, narcotics and crime, humanitarian intervention, and counterterrorism – paved the way for nearly continuous military engagement. Darda also investigates how a wide swath of writers, filmmakers, and journalists – from I. F. Stone and Ishmael Reed to June Jordan and Stanley Kubrick – have struggled to communicate the true story of war without end. Darda draws a clear line from the Cold War to the War on Terror and makes sense of our collective cultural efforts to recognize the not-so-new normal of nonstop military empire building.

About the Author

Joseph Darda is assistant professor of English and comparative race and ethnic studies at Texas Christian University.