In this concise history of war, Jeremy Black ranges widely, giving due attention to non-western as well as western traditions. The history of war is inextricably bound to the history of the world. Through a detailed exploration of 'world-scale' issues of warfare, presented within a chronological framework that spans human history, Jeremy Black skilfully illustrates this fact whilst providing the reader with other astute insights and compelling interpretations of war.
War: A Short History is a dramatic move away from the formulaic, western approach to military history. Too narrow in its focus on wars specific to the west and too simple because of an over-reliance on a technologically-deterministic reading of warfare, this approach has been rejected by Jeremy Black in favour of a global model that takes all factors into account when considering the strengths and weaknesses of a particular military tradition. This is a book that is as important for its relevance to current world issues of conflict as it is for its thorough consideration of a monumentally significant aspect of human history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Until the ‘Barbarian’ Invasions
- 2 From the Creation of the Islamic World to the Start of European Transoceanic Expansion, 630–1490
- 3 The Gunpowder Empires of the Early-Modern World, 1490–1630
- 4 From the Mid-Seventeenth Century Crisis to the Age of Revolutions, 1630–1800
- 5 The World of the European Empires, 1800–1950
- 6 To the Present, 1950–
- 7 Conclusions: Assessing War
- Selected Further Reading
- Index
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