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Hijacking History
Liane Tanguay
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Description for Hijacking History
Paperback. How Bush's war commandeered history and exploited the anxieties of post-industrial America. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLX; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror. She argues that the fears, anxieties, and even the hopes encoded in American popular culture account for the public's passive acceptance of the Bush administration's wars overseas and violation of many of the rights, privileges, and freedoms they claimed to defend. In her analysis, Tanguay critically examines the neoconservative contention that the current system of liberal-democratic capitalism represents the peak of human evolution - a claim that creates the impression of a "post-historical" age. ... Read more
In Hijacking History, Liane Tanguay unravels the ideology behind an American enterprise unprecedented in scope, ambition, and brazen claim to global supremacy: the War on Terror. She argues that the fears, anxieties, and even the hopes encoded in American popular culture account for the public's passive acceptance of the Bush administration's wars overseas and violation of many of the rights, privileges, and freedoms they claimed to defend. In her analysis, Tanguay critically examines the neoconservative contention that the current system of liberal-democratic capitalism represents the peak of human evolution - a claim that creates the impression of a "post-historical" age. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773540743
SKU
V9780773540743
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About Liane Tanguay
Liane Tanguay is an independent scholar and external fellow of the York Centre for International and Security Studies at York University.
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