| Description |
1 online resource (386 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of maps -- List of boxes and tables -- Preface to the third edition -- Introduction: strategic history -- Part I Theory of war -- 1 Themes and contexts of strategic history -- 2 Carl von Clausewitz and the theory of war -- Part II The French and Industrial Revolutions -- 3 From limited war to national war: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic way of war -- 4 The nineteenth century, I: a strategic view -- 5 The nineteenth century, II: technology, warfare and international order |
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Part III World War I and the twenty-year armistice -- 6 World War I, I: controversies -- 7 World War I, II: modern warfare -- 8 The twenty-year armistice, 1919-39 -- 9 The mechanization of war -- Part IV World War II -- 10 World War II in Europe, I: the structure and course of total war -- 11 World War II in Europe, II: understanding the war -- 12 World War II in Asia-Pacific, I: Japan and the politics of empire -- 13 World War II in Asia-Pacific, II: strategy and warfare -- Part V The Cold War -- 14 The Cold War, I: politics and ideology -- 15 The Cold War, II: the nuclear revolution |
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Part VI Our contemporary age -- 16 War and peace after the Cold War: an interwar decade -- 17 9/11 and the age of terror -- 18 The age of acceleration and the rise of great power competition -- Conclusion: war, peace and international order -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the strategic history of the past two centuries, showing how those 200 years were shaped and reshaped extensively by war |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wirtz, James J
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| ISBN |
9781000969627 |
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1000969622 |
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