The Costs of war : America's pyrrhic victories
John V. Denson (Editor, Writer of introduction)
Central to this volume are the views of Ludwig von Mises on war and foreign policy. Mises argued that war, along with colonialism and imperialism, is the greatest enemy of freedom and prosperity, and that peace throughout the world cannot be achieved until the central governments of the major nations become very limited in scope and power
Print Book, English, ©1997
Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., ©1997
Aufsatzsammlung
xviii, 449 pages ; 24 cm
9781560003199, 1560003197
36011765
Introduction
1. War and American freedom / John V. Denson
2. Classical republicanism and the right to bear arms / Samuel Francis
3. Defenders of the republic : the anti-interventionist tradition in American politics / Justin Raimondo
4. America's two just wars : 1775 and 1861 / Murray N. Rothbard
5. Rethinking Lincoln / Richard Gamble
6. Did the South have to fight? / Thomas Fleming
7. War, Reconstruction and the end of the old republic / Clyde Wilson
8. The Spanish-American War as trial run, or empire as its own justification / Joseph R. Stromberg
9. World War I as fulfillment : power and the intellectuals / Murray N. Rothbard
10. Rethinking Churchill / Ralph Raico
11. The old breed and the costs of war / Eugene B. Sledge
12. War and Leviathan in twentieth-century America : conscription as the keystone / Robert Higgs
13. The military as an engine of social change / Allan Carlson
14. His country's own heart's-blood : American writers confront war / Bill Kauffman
15. The culture of war / Paul Fussell
16. Is modern democracy warlike? / Paul Gottfried
17. War and the money machine : concealing the costs of war behind the veil of inflation / Joseph T. Salerno
18. Time preference, government, and the process of de-civilization : from monarchy to democracy / Hans-Hermann Hoppe