Format:
XIV, 656 S.
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Ill., Kt.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139021203
Content:
Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies
Content:
pt. I. The industrialization of warfare, 1850-1914 -- A hinge in time : the wars of the mid nineteenth century -- War, technology and industrial change, 1850-1914 -- War and imperial expansion -- The non-western world responds to imperialism, 1850-1914 -- War, society, and culture, 1850-1914 : the rise of militarism -- War-making and restraint by law : the formative years, 1864-1914 -- The arms race: qualitative and quantitative aspects -- pt. II. The era of total war, 1914-1945 -- World War I -- Military captivity in two world wars : legal frameworks and camp regimes -- Military occupations, 1914-1945 -- Homefronts : the mobilization of resources for total war -- The search for peace in the interwar period --Commemorating war, 1914-1945 -- Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era -- The military and the revolutionary state -- World War II -- pt. III. Post-total warfare, 1945-2005 -- Military occupations, 1945-1955 -- The wars after the war, 1945-1954 -- Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages -- Conventional war, 1945-1990 -- Wars of decolonization, 1945-1975 -- War and memory since 1945 -- The era of American hegemony, 1989-2005
In:
4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521875776
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge history of war ; Vol. 4: War and the modern world Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012 ISBN 9780521875776
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHO9781139021203
URL:
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Author information:
Chickering, Roger 1942-
Author information:
Showalter, Dennis E. 1942-2019
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