Format:
1 Online-Ressource (422 pages)
ISBN:
9780752494777
Content:
This global analysis of the social effects of war offers a far-reaching assessment of military history, challenging the focus on technology and military revolution. War is placed in context, from the evolution of specialised troops in the earliest civilisations, to likely future scenarios
Note:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Until the Creation of the Islamic World; 2. From the Eighth Century to the Fifteenth; 3. The Rise of the Gunpowder Empires; 4. The Seventeenth Century; 5. The Eighteenth Century; 6. From the French Revolutionary Wars to 1914; 7. From the First World War to the Present; 8. Conclusions; Notes; Further Reading
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780750923941
Additional Edition:
Print version War : Past, Present and Future
Language:
English
Keywords:
Krieg
;
Kriegführung
;
Militär
;
Geschichte
;
Electronic books
Author information:
Black, Jeremy 1955-
