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Author: Wayne E. Lee
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814752772
Size: 26.88 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Book Description: It has long been acknowledged that the study of war and warfare demands careful consideration of technology, institutions, social organization, and more. But, for some, the so-called "war and society" approach increasingly included everything but explained nothing, because it all too often seemed to ignore the events on the battlefield itself. The military historians in Warfare and Culture in World History return us to the battlefield, but they do so through a deep examination of the role of culture in shaping military institutions and military choices. Collected here are some of the most provocative recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens, drawing on and aggressively expanding traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. With chapters ranging from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies to the soldiers' culture of late Republican Rome and debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification, this one volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.

Author: Wayne E. Lee
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479800007
Size: 73.13 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Book Description: An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield. Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification. In addition to a revised and expanded introduction, the second edition of Warfare and Culture in World History now adds new chapters on the role of herding in shaping Mongol strategies, Spanish military culture and its effects on the conquest of the New World, and the blending of German and East African military cultures among the Africans who served in the German colonial army. This volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.

Author: Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197532764
Size: 46.68 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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Book Description: This is the first world history of empire, reaching from the third millennium BCE to the present. By combining synthetic surveys, thematic comparative essays, and numerous chapters on specific empires, its two volumes provide unparalleled coverage of imperialism throughout history and across continents, from Asia to Europe and from Africa to the Americas. Only a few decades ago empire was believed to be a thing of the past; now it is clear that it has been and remains one of the most enduring forms of political organization and power. We cannot understand the dynamics and resilience of empire without moving decisively beyond the study of individual cases or particular periods, such as the relatively short age of European colonialism. The history of empire, as these volumes amply demonstrate, needs to be drawn on the much broader canvas of global history. Volume Two: The History of Empires tracks the protean history of political domination from the very beginnings of state formation in the Bronze Age up to the present. Case studies deal with the full range of the historical experience of empire, from the realms of the Achaemenids and Asoka to the empires of Mali and Songhay, and from ancient Rome and China to the Mughals, American settler colonialism, and the Soviet Union. Forty-five chapters detailing the history of individual empires are tied together by a set of global synthesizing surveys that structure the world history of empire into eight chronological phases.

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Size: 28.30 MB
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Author: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1793634963
Size: 67.31 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Book Description: Combat Death in Contemporary American Culture: Popular Cultural Conceptions of War since World War II explores how war has been portrayed in the United States since World War II, with a particular focus on an emotionally charged but rarely scrutinized topic: combat death. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that most stories about war use three main building blocks: melodrama, adventure, and horror. Monnet examines how melodrama and adventure have helped make war seem acceptable to the American public by portraying combat death as a meaningful sacrifice and by making military killing look necessary and often even pleasurable. Horror no longer serves its traditional purpose of making the bloody realities of war repulsive, but has instead been repurposed in recent years to intensify the positivity of melodrama and adventure. Thus this book offers a fascinating diagnosis of how war stories perform ideological and emotional work and why they have such a powerful grip on the American imagination.

Author: Mark A. Kishlansky
Publisher: Harpercollins College Division
ISBN: 9780065003499
Size: 77.77 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1113
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Author: American Historical Association. Meeting
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Size: 72.68 MB
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Languages : en
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Size: 14.38 MB
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Languages : en
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Author: James E. McClellan III
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883606
Size: 29.11 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Size: 51.62 MB
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Category : Art
Languages : en
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Author: James Richard Farr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780742534001
Size: 76.71 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Book Description: The author focuses on three salient, interconnected, and at times conflicting developments: the extension and integration of the market economy, the growth of the state's functions and governing apparatus, and the intensification of social hierarchy."--Jacket.

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Size: 70.94 MB
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
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Book Description: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.