An edition of Civil wars (2017)

Civil wars

a history in ideas

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An edition of Civil wars (2017)

Civil wars

a history in ideas

First edition.
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"A highly original history, tracing civil war, the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression, from Ancient Rome through the centuries to present day"--

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
349

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2017, Alfred A. Knopf
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Table of Contents

Introduction : confronting civil war
Part I: Roads from Rome. Inventing civil war : the Roman tradition ; Remembering civil war : Roman visions
Part II: Early modern crossroads. Uncivil civil wars : the seventeenth century ; Civil war in an age of revolutions : the eighteenth century
Part III: Paths to the present. Civilizing civil war : the nineteenth century ; Worlds of civil war : the twentieth century
Conclusion : civil wars of words.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-332) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.02/1809
Library of Congress
JC328.5 .A75 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 349 pages
Number of pages
349

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27228114M
ISBN 10
0307271137
ISBN 13
9780307271136
LCCN
2016023404
OCLC/WorldCat
958205115

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