Program:
Format:
Online
Term:
Summer 2023
Session:
Summer Session II: June 29 – August 4, 2023
Subject Area:
HEALTH & SOCIETIES (HSOC)
Course Number
HSOC 1120 920
Schedule:
Monday 12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday 12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Friday 12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Instructor:
SCHIRVAR, SAMUEL W
Primary Program:
LPS Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate
Course Description:
In this survey we explore the relationships between technical knowledge and warin the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We attend particularly to the centrality of bodily injury in the history of war. Topics include changing interpretations of the machine gun as inhumane or acceptable; the cult of the battleship; banned weaponry; submarines and masculinity; industrialized war and total war; trench warfare and mental breakdown; the atomic bomb and Cold War; chemical warfare in Viet Nam; and "television war" in the 1990s.
