The Worth of War

by Benjamin Ginsberg

Book Overview

Although war is terrible and brutal, history shows that it has been a great driver of human progress. So argues political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg in this incisive, well-researched study of the benefits to civilization derived from armed conflict. Ginsberg makes a convincing case that war selects for and promotes certain features of societies that are generally held to represent progress. These include rationality, technological and economic development,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616149507
• ISBN13: 9781616149505
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"