Screen LibraryA short history of war /
Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars-past, present, and future-to create and reinforce a common purpose. In this engaging overview, Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: |
2022. ©2021 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars-past, present, and future-to create and reinforce a common purpose. In this engaging overview, Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Black explores too the significance of warfare more broadly and the ways in which cultural understandings of conflict have lasting consequences in societies across the world. Weaponry, Black argues, has had a fundamental impact on modes of war: it created war in the air and transformed it at sea. Today, as twentieth-century weapons are challenged by drones and robotics, Black examines what the future of warfare looks like. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 258 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300267075 030026707X |
| Index Number: | U21 |
| CLC: | E19 |
| Call Number: | E19/B627-2 |
| Contents: | 1. The Origins of Conflict -- 2. War and Early States -- 3. Egypt, Assyria, Persia -- 4. Early Chinese Warfare -- 5. Greece and Macedon -- 6. Indian Warfare -- 7. Rome and Hannibal -- 8. Imperial Rome and Its Fall -- 9. The 'Dark Ages' -- 10. Feudal Warfare -- 11. Castles -- 12. The Crusades -- 13. The Mongols and Timur -- 14. Early Japanese Warfare -- 15. Warfare in the New World to 1500 -- 16. African Warfare -- 17. Australasian and Oceanic Warfare -- 18. Gunpowder on Land -- 19. The New-style Fortress -- 20. Naval Reach Transforms the World, 1400-1763 -- 21. The Place of Battle -- 22. The Ottoman Powerhouse -- 23. Japan and China Clash -- 24. The Age of Fighting Sail, 1588-1827 -- 25. China, Russia and the End of the Steppe -- 26. The Collapse of European Control in the New World, 1775-1825 -- 27. Napoleonic Warfare -- 28. Wars within the West, 1816-1913 -- 29. Nineteenth-century Imperialism -- 30. China from Crisis to Consolidation, 1839-1949 -- 31. World War One -- 32. The Interwar Years -- 33. World War Two -- 34. The Cold War -- 35. Wars of Decolonisation -- 36. Conflict Since the Cold War -- 37. War Today -- 38. The Confrontations of Major Powers -- 39. Theorists of Military History -- Conclusions. |