Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History,9781403917676

Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History

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ISBN13: 9781403917676
ISBN10: 1403917671
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-01-09
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This collection constitutes the definitive guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modern military history. It provides the reader with a clear and up-to-date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history, ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and across the technological, political, social, and cultural dimensions of military history.

Table of Contents

notes on contributors vii
introduction 1
matthew hughes and william j. philpott
1. military revolutions and military history
8
laurent henninger
2. warfare and the rise of the state
23
alan james
3. war and society
42
michael s. neiberg
4. military thought from machiavelli to liddell hart
61
nikolas gardner
5. land warfare from machiavelli to desert storm
84
warren chin
6. low-intensity conflict, insurgency, terrorism and revolutionary war
107
john p. cann
7. total war
131
william j. philpott
8. air power
153
john buckley
9. naval warfare
172
andrew lambert
10. war in the non-european world 195
bruce vandervort
11. imperial military history 214
peter stanley
12. technology, science and war 231
matthew hughes
13. new military history 258
joanna bourke
index 281

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