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Title
Routledge handbook of the global history of warfare
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Roy, Kaushik, 1971- (Editor)
Charney, Michael W. (Editor)
Subject
Military art and science--History (LCSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: U27 .R68 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 355.0209 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23/eng/20231115)
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bibliography
index
Content
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Summary
"This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the Western experience, global histories of warfare have had difficulty avoiding an overemphasis on the West. The present volume is a collection of themes rather than a history per se; it provides important perspectives on the emergence of warfare as a global historical experience from the ancient past to the present-day. Drawing together numerous experts, it tells a broader, more inclusive story of the global, human experience with wars and warfare. The 35 essays are organized in eight thematic sections: Part I: Origins of Warfare Part II: Polities and Armed Forces in the Pre-modern Era Part III: Steppe Nomads of Eurasia Part IV: Naval Warfare and Piracy in the Pre-Industrial World Part V: The Impact of Gunpowder Part VI: Transition from Industrial to Total War Part VII: Wars of Decolonisation and Cold War Part VIII: Postmodern/New Wars These sections offer an overview of the global experience of warfare to help readers understand how the wars and the militaries we see today have been shaped by historical developments across the globe. This handbook will be of great interest to students of military history, naval history, strategic studies and world history in general"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Introduction: The evolution of warfare : global perspectives / Kaushik Roy and Michael W. Charney
The evolution of Bronze Age warfare, and its historical significance, in Western Eurasia and the Near East / Robert Drews
War, captive-taking, and warriors in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica / Andrew K. Scherer
Indigenous warfare in Australia and New Zealand / John Connor, Michael W. Charney, and Kaushik Roy
Assyrian warfare, 1550-609 BCE / Sarah C. Melville
The polis and the emergence of Hoplite warfare / Matthew Trundle
Transition from Roman to Merovingian warfare : The long fifth century / Bernard S. Bachrach
New approaches to late Imperial Chinese warfare / Kenneth M. Swope
Warfare in precolonial Africa / O.R. Coates
The European Huns / Cameron Barnes
Arab-Byzantine warfare: 660 CE-1040 CE / John Haldon
Crusading armies and the Turks in the Middle East / John D. Hosler
The limits of Mongol military power / Timothy May
The cycle of empire in Central Asia : the frontier and beyond / Andrew de la Garza
The Egyptian origins of amphibious warfare: Out of Africa / Mark Charles Fissel
China's pirate wars, 1522-1810 / Robert J. Antony
Rise of British naval power in the Indian Ocean / Amarendra Kumar
Economy and gunpowder weapons in Western and Central Europe / Philip T.
Hoffman
Gunpowder and the rise of Muscovy : circa 1200-circa 1800 / Kaushik Roy
Smallpox and war in America / Erica Charters
Gunpowder and the North American Indian way of war / Kaushik Roy
Firearms and maritime gunpowder states of Asia / Michael W. Charney
Napoleon and mass warfare / Andrew Bamford
The American Civil War and the beginning of total war? / A. James Fuller
The British Army, 1870-1918 : from small war to trench war / Ian F. W.
Beckett
Theory and practice of armoured war during the two World Wars / Michael W. Charney
Race and conflict in the Asia-Pacific region : 1941-1945 / Mark Johnston
Modern naval warfare : 1815-2000 / Andrew Lambert
Strategic air power in the two World Wars / Kathryn Barbier
Warfare in the Middle East since 1945 / Rob Geist Pinfold
Wars of decolonisation in South Asia : the Indian Army, 1945-47 / Alan Jeffreys
The Falklands conflict : the last British Imperial war? / Rob McLaughlin
The global War on Terror : the American operations in Afghanistan and Iraq /
Robert Johnson
Private military contractors and conflicts in the New Millennium / Christopher Kinsey
The arms race in contemporary East Asia / Andrew T.H. Tan
Employment of air power in fourth generation warfare : an Indian perspective / Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam.
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Routledge handbook of the global history of warfare
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: prepublication
Identified By: bf:Local, 23369216
Change Date: 2023-11-15T15:54:31
Creation Date: 2023-10-31
Description Language: English
Description Authentication: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Assigner: United States, Library of Congress