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This book provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of warfare across times and cultures. Its main strengths are its ability to provide context for each period discussed, comparison between developments in Europe, Asia, and the colonized world, and critical and up-to-date bibliographies that allow the reader to pursue subjects in greater depth. - Jacket flap.
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World History of Warfare (Tactics & Strategies)
October 1, 2002, University of Nebraska Press
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0803244231 9780803244238
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Table of Contents
Introduction : The origins of warfare
Warfare of the ancient empires
War and society in the classical West : 450 B.C. to A.D. 450
Migrations and invasions : Huns, Goths, Byzantines, Arabs, Vikings, and Magyars, A.D. 300-1000
European chivalry and the rise of Islam
Eastern styles of warfare : the Mongols, India, China, and Japan
The age of gunpowder and sail
New signs of total war : the seventeenth century
Absolutism and war : the eighteenth century
The revolutionary era
The beginnings of industrial warfare
The West conquers the world : war and society in the age of European imperialism, 1757-1914
Twentieth-century militarisms and technological warfare
Third World wars : war and society during the Cold War and after
Epilogue: The future of war and peace
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