Title Warfare and culture in world history / edited by Wayne E. Lee

Edition Second edition Published New York : New York University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 351 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Warfare and culture / Wayne E. Lee -- Last campaign : the Assyrian way of war and the collapse of the empire / Sarah C. Melville -- Disciplining Octavian : a case study of Roman military culture, 44-30 BCE / Lee L. Brice -- Herding the enemy: culture in nomadic warfare / Timothy May -- How Spanish was the Spanish Conquest? Reexamining Spanish success in the new world / James B. Wood -- Of bureaucrats and bandits : Confucianism and anti-rebel strategy at the end of the Ming Dynasty / Kenneth M. Swope -- Battle culture of forbearance, 1660-1789 / John A. Lynn II -- Success and failure in civil war armies : clues from organizational culture / Mark Grimsley -- Imagining African warfare: war games and millitary cultures in German East Africa / Michelle Moyd -- German military culture and the colonial war in Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 / Isabel V. Hull -- Connecting culture and the battlefield : Britain and the empire fight the hundred days / David Silbey -- American culture of war in the age of artificial limited war / Adrian R. Lewis Summary "Warfare and Culture in World History explores cultural consequences of war in the world"-- Provided by publisher "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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Military art and science -- History. War and society -- History Political culture -- History Military history. Military art and science Military history Political culture War and society Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Lee, Wayne E., 1965- editor, author. Brice, Lee L., author. Grimsley, Mark, author. Hull, Isabel V., author. Lewis, Adrian R., author. Lynn, John A. (John Albert), 1943- author. May, Timothy Michael, author. Melville, Sarah C. (Sarah Chamberlin), author. Moyd, Michelle R., 1968- author. Silbey, David, author. Swope, Kenneth, 1969- author. Wood, James B., 1946- author. ISBN 1479844268 9781479844265

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