As socialist regimes crumbled across Eastern Europe and statues of their leaders were dismantled, another pattern arose in the former Iron Curtain nations: the bodies of political leaders, revolutionary heroes, artists, and other luminaries were taken from their graves to be reinterred - and in many cases, repatriated - in new, symbolically charged locations. What forces inspired these exhumations of long-dead spirits of Eastern Europe's past, from composer Bela Bartok's New York-Budapest journey to evictions of a group of Romanian communist leaders from their exalted mausoleums to a scattering of humble graveyards? What are the effects for the living of removing the bones of the dead from their resting places for ceremonial - or unceremonious - reburial? In this book, anthrolopogist Katherine Verdery explores Eastern Europe's political transformation from the perspective of sacred, symbolic ways that nations and cultures redefine themselves when new political orders are installed.

戰爭如何創造歷史？戰爭如何孕生社會？戰爭如何形塑人們的主體經驗？
克勞塞維茲說：「戰爭是政治的延續」
由汪宏倫主編，朱元鴻、汪宏倫、姚人多、莊佳穎、彭仁郁、黃金麟、趙彥寧、鄭祖邦、藍適齊等專家學者所撰寫《戰爭與社會：理論、歷史、主體經驗》則是指出：「社會是戰爭的延續」
戰爭是形塑人類歷史的重要力量，也是探討現代性（modernity）不可或缺的一環。《戰爭與社會》共分十章，是台灣社會學界對這個新興研究領域的集體努力成果，十篇專文從理論、歷史、到主體經驗，次第開展，為讀者提供了一個較為完整的思考圖像。
《戰爭與社會》結合台灣、東亞與世界的脈絡，為相關議題的探究，開啟新的方向。