War, States, and Contention: A Comparative Historical Study

329 Pages·2015·2.425 MB·English

by  Sidney Tarrow

WAR, STATES,
AND CONTENTION

WAR,
STATES, AND
CONTENTION
A Comparative Historical Study
Sidney Tarrow
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON
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Tarrow, Sidney G., author.
War, states, and contention : a comparative historical study / Sidney Tarrow.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8014-5317-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Cover illustration: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Tres de Mayo de 1808
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For Chuck—Still a teacher!

Contents
List of Figures and Maps ix
List of Tables xi
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
1. Studying War, States, and Contention 9
Part 1 W AR AND MOVEMENTS IN THE BUILDING
OF NEW STATES
2. A Movement-State Goes to War: France, 1789–1799 31
3. A Movement Makes War: Civil War and Reconstruction 51
4. A War Makes Movements: The Strange Death of
Illiberal Italy 77
Part 2 ENDLESS WARS
5. From Statist Wars to Composite Conflicts 101
6. Wars at Home, 1917–1975 118
7. The War at Home, 2001–2013 152
8. The American State of Terror 168
9. Contesting Hegemony 187
Part 3 I NTERNATIONALIZATION AND THE NEW WORLD
OF CONTENTION
10. The Dark Side of Internationalism 217
Conclusions 239
Notes 261
References 279
Acknowledgments 303
Index 305
vii

Figures and Maps
Figures
1.1. Typology of the forms of war-related contentious
politics 14
2.1. Departments in a state of siege 47
4.1. Days lost to strikes and percentage of the total among
farmworkers 87
5.1. Annual accumulated death toll resulting from internal
terrorist attacks 107
6.1. NGram analysis of civil liberties and emergency powers 124
6.2. World War Two and early Cold War civilian and military
personnel 129
6.3. Partisan trends in support for the Vietnam War 142
6.4. U.S. Vietnam War engagement and antiwar protests 143
8.1. U.S. forces and military contractors in Afghanistan
and Iraq 172
8.2. National security state spending on research and
development by federal agency 178
8.3. Military contracts and grants in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar 180
9.1. Planned protest events and meetings in the Seattle area 192
9.2. Size of national and nationally coordinated antiwar
protests 196
9.3. Network of law firms and institutions contributing to
the Guantánamo Bar 205
10.1. Human rights and antiterrorist conventions 221
10.2. Worldwide passage of counterterrorist legislation 231
Maps
I.1. Ukraine, Crimea, and the Kerch connection to Russia 3
ix