O'Connell, Robert L.

Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of War

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 305, notes, index, slight wear to top and bottom DJ edges. The author asserts that war is an invention--an institution that arose due to very specific historical circumstances, an institution that now verges on extinction. On p. 234 he discusses the Spanish-American War as a palliative, an equipoise to the tedium and uncertainty of daily existence. Condition: very good, very good.

Keywords: Military Science, Military History, Spanish-Am War

[Book #15747]

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