The Cambridge History Of Warfare
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Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 605 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107181593 |
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The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 605 |
Release | : 2020-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316856798 |
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The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. The book stresses five essential aspects of the Western way of war: a combination of technology, discipline, and an aggressive military tradition with an extraordinary capacity to respond rapidly to challenges and to use capital rather than manpower to win. Although the focus remains on the West, and on the role of violence in its rise, each chapter also examines the military effectiveness of its adversaries and the regions in which the West's military edge has been – and continues to be – challenged.
Author | : Roger Chickering |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1065 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316175928 |
Download The Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.
Author | : David A. Graff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108901190 |
Download The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.
Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2008-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521738064 |
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Now available in a revised and updated version, this book examines Western warfare from antiquity to the present day.
Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521440738 |
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Provides an account of war in the West from antiquity to the present day
Author | : MacGregor Knox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521800792 |
Download The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.
Author | : Brooke L. Blower |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2022-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108317847 |
Download The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900–1945 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected their growing influence across the globe; how others interpreted and constrained those efforts; how Americans disagreed with each other, often fiercely, about foreign relations; and how race, religion, gender, and other factors shaped their worldviews. During the early twentieth century, accelerating forces of global interdependence presented Americans, like others, with a set of urgent challenges from managing borders, humanitarian crises, economic depression, and modern warfare to confronting the radical, new political movements of communism, fascism, and anticolonial nationalism. This volume will set the standard for new understandings of this pivotal moment in the history of America and the world.
Author | : Greg Woolf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521827751 |
Download The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
New history richly illustrated in colour and aimed at the general reader.
Author | : Williamson R. Murray |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1998-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521637602 |
Download Military Innovation in the Interwar Period Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s.