The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End Wagner-Pacifici Robin
The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End Wagner-Pacifici Robin How do we know when a war ends? Historically, most conflicts have ended with such rituals. For many, the…
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The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End Wagner-Pacifici Robin
How do we know when a war ends? Historically, most conflicts have ended with such rituals. For many, the resolution of a conflict comes not with the last traces of smoke left on the battlefield, but with the formal ceremonies of surrender: possession and repossession, the signing of treaties, and the pomp and circumstance that mark them.
They also offer ways of holding back and signal early fault lines that give rise to later undoings and conflicts.The Art of Surrender explores these ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. But, as Robin Wagner-Pacifici reveals in The Art of Surrender, they should not be seen as merely a matter of giving up. Wagner-Pacifici analyzes three significant military surrenders in the history of warfare--the Thirty Years' War of the
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