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Author:   Peter Haldén (Swedish Defence University, Sweden) ,  Peter Jackson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138642836

ISBN 10:   1138642835
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   12 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"1. Introduction. Symbolic and Mythological Perspectives on War and Peace join the Archaic with the Modern, Peter Haldén and Peter Jackson 2. A Portrait of the Warrior as a Beast: Hunter, Man, and Animal in Sophocles Trachiniae and Schwarzenegger’s Predator, Johan Tralau 3. Cycles of the Wolf: Unmasking the Young Warrior in Europe’s Past, Peter Jackson 4. ""Laughing I shall die!"" The Total Transformations of Berserks and Ulfhednar in Old Norse Society, Andreas Nordberg and Frederik Wallenstein 5. Professionalization of Transformation: From Knights to Officers in the Renaissance, Gorm Harste 6. Transformation into Manhood: Sex, Violence and the Making of Warriors, Women and Victims in Early Modern Europe, Maria Sjöberg 7. Japanese Warrior Transformations: Bushidō as the Continuation of Death by other Means, Dan Öberg 8. Mystical and Modern Transformations in the Liberian Civil War, Ilmari Käikhö 9. Transformation into Nature: Swedish Army Ranger Rites of Passage, Jan Angstrom 10. From Total to Minimal Transformation: German Oaths of Loyalty 1871-2014, Peter Haldén 11. The Warrior on the Edge of Tomorrow, Christopher Coker 12. The Haunted Road: Failed Transformations and the Return from War or, A Historical Sociology of War Veterans, Gorm Harste 13. Conclusions. The Transformations of the Future, Peter Haldén"

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Peter Haldén is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University (SDU) in Stockholm. He is the author of Stability without Statehood (2011), Geopolitics of Climate Change (2007) and co-editor of New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, Contingency and History (2013). Peter Jackson is Professor at the department of History of Religions at Stockholm University. He is the author of The Transformations of Helen: Indo-European Myth and the Roots of the Trojan Cycle (2007), and editor of Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond (2015).

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