War Matters: Material Culture in the Civil War Era

Afro-American Identity: Reflections on the Pre-Civil War Era

I am told that there are Haitians able to trace their ancestry back to African kings. but any American Negro wishing to go back so far will find his journey through time abruptly arrested by the signature on the bill ofsale which served as the entrance paper for his ancestor. At the time-to say nothing ofthe circumstances-ofthe enslavement ofthe captive black man who was to become the American ...

Civil War in Cyberspace

In der Informationsgesellschaft nehmen auch in Deutschland aggressive und kriminelle Handlungen (Computermißbrauch) ausweislich der jährlichen Kriminalstatistik [BMI02] zu. Weniger Bedeutung wird in Deutschland bisher politisch–motivierten Aktionen beigemessen. Weltweit werden klassische Verfahren wie ziviler Ungehorsam, innere Unruhen und Bürgerkrieg zunehmend durch IT–gestützte Verfahren ergä...

Globalization and Civil War

Repression or Civil War?∗

Perhaps the crowning achievement of mature democracies is the peaceful acceptance of the ballot box as the primary instrument for deciding who should hold power in society. We do not have to go far back in the history of most democratic states, however, to find a distinct role for political violence. Moreover, many inhabitants of the globe still remain at risk of falling prey to widespread viol...

The Last English Civil War

This essay examines why England experienced a civil war every fifty years from the Norman Conquest up until the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, and was completely stable after that point. The reasons had to do with, first, the slow accumulation of law and respect for the law that had occurred by the seventeenth century, and second, with the emergence of a strong English state and sense of nat...