Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107181593
The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Author : Roger Chickering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1316175928
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.
Author : David A. Graff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1108901190
Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.
Author : Christon I. Archer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780803244238
This book provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of warfare across times and cultures. Its main strengths are its ability to provide context for each period discussed, comparison between developments in Europe, Asia, and the colonized world, and critical and up-to-date bibliographies that allow the reader to pursue subjects in greater depth. - Jacket flap.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1996-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521470339
The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution provides a thorough introduction to the military and naval history of the years 1492 to 1792, covering the period from the European Renaissance to the revolutionary wars of the late eighteenth century. Detailed colour maps, battle plans, and colour and black-and-white illustrations combine with an authoritative text to illuminate developments in warfare on both land and sea. Particular attention is paid to the effects of European military expansion on the rest of the world including the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Special feature panels are devoted to key events, to the more complicated and intriguing military confrontations, to individual tacticians and to the key topics such as weapons, battle strategies, the rise of naval warfare, and the composition of armies. The book is written by a leading historian of the early modern period.
Author : John Andreas Olsen
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1597976385
This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign. Each essay lays out the objectives, events, and key players of the conflict in question, reviews the role of air power in the strategic and operational contexts, and explores the interplay between the political framework and mil.
Author : Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108882900
The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the Palaeolithic through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, Volume 1 will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
Author : Nicholas Hooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521440493
This book offers a highly readable account of warfare in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Battle of Poitiers to the Wars of the Roses. With an emphasis on superb full-colour cartography and illustration, The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768 1487 focuses on military strategy, debunking some of the prevailing myths of medieval warfare. Often characterized as an era dominated by lone knights and long sieges, the Middle Ages in fact had a military culture as sophisticated and complex as our own, with organized armies and a high degree of tactical intelligence. This complexity is detailed in maps, plans, and an informative text. Development of naval warfare, cavalry, and siege tactics are all covered, as is the nature of contemporary logistics and contemporary understanding of the science of warfare.
Author : Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107014751
An important new history of air and sea power in World War II and its decisive role in Allied victory.
Author : MacGregor Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,55 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521800792
This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.
