Scalp-taking Piano, Ennio E; Carson, Byron B
Rationality and society,
02/2020, Letnik:
32, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
At their arrival in North America, travelers from the Old Continent were exposed to a radically different civilization. Among the many practices that captured their imagination was scalp-taking. ...During a battle, the Native American warrior would often stop after having killed or subdued the enemy and cut off his scalp. In this article, we develop an economic theory of this gruesome practice. We argue that scalp-taking constituted an institutional solution to the problem of monitoring warriors’ behavior in the battlefield under conditions of high information costs.
1989 Sarotte, Mary Elise; Sarotte, Mary Elise
2014., 20141005, 2014, 2015-01-01
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1989explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from ...Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations,1989describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe.
This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's post-Cold War expansion.
Hannah Arendt began her political activities in Zionism as a vindication of a political space for the Jewish people, recognized as a people, and also as a fight against Nazi totalitarianism. Her ...request of a Jewish army during the Second World War is related to these sovereignist interests
Hannah Arendt inició sus actividades políticas en el sionismo como reivindicación de la lucha del pueblo judío, como pueblo, por la obtención de un espacio político propio y contra el totalitarismo nazi. Su defensa de la creación de un ejército judío durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial obedece a estos intereses soberanistas
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