Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781315629711
,
9781317244844
,
9781317244851
Series Statement:
Cass military studies
Content:
1. Introducion : symbolic and mythological perspectives on war and peace join the archaic with the modern / Peter Halden 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 berserkers and ulfhenar 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 Sjoberg -- 7. Japanese warrior transformations : bushido as the continuation of death by other means / Dan Oberg -- 8. Mystical and modern transformations in the Liberian Civil War / Ilmari Kaihko -- 9. Transformation into nature : Swedish Army Ranger rites of passage / Jan Angstrom -- 10. From total to minimal fransformation : German oaths of loyalty 1871-2014 / Peter Halden -- 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 Halden.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138642836
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138642836
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315629711
