| Titre | Une généalogie guerrière de l'histoire | |
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| Auteur | Yves Chevrier | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 3, juillet 1984 La guerre en son siècle | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Enjeux |
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| Page | 91-114 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A warlike genealogy of history. Mac-Neill's paradigm, Yves Chevrier
History is produced by war, not the contrary. Such is the thesis of W.H. MacNeill, an American historian familiar with wide-ranging frescoes, in The Pursuit of Power (1982). This critical review places MacNeill's thinking in the wake of famous predecessors : Braudel, Weber, Marx, Clausewitz and Gibbon. It also defines his originality : thinking about war no longer in terms of its waging, causes and consequences, but seeing in it the mode of production of civilization and society. Like the class struggle, war is a motor of history. This is a revolutionary thesis, which raises many critical questions. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/xxs_0294-1759_1984_num_3_1_1695 |
