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Author Black, Jeremy

Title Introduction to Global Military History : 1775 to the Present Day
Edition 3rd ed
Published Florence : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (357 pages)
Series Routledge Philosophical Minds
Routledge philosophical minds
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The world of war in the eighteenth century; Introduction; Assessing significance; Publications and experimentation; Tasks for assessment; Naval power; Power projection; Outcomes and choices; The West and the rest; The American War of Independence, 1775-83; War between the USA and Native Americans; Europe before the French Revolution; The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-9; The Rise of Napoleon; Asian conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s
Conclusions2 Empires rise and fall, 1800-30; Introduction; The rise of Britain; Napoleon; The War of 1812; The Latin American Wars of Independence; Europe after Napoleon; Developments elsewhere; Conclusions; 3 Moulding states, 1830-80; Introduction; The aims of conflict; The impact of technology; The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-66; The American Civil War, 1861-5; The Wars of German Unification; Latin America; Conclusions; 4 Building empires, 1830-1913; Introduction; Western imperialism; American expansion; Naval power; Non-Western states; East Asia; 1789-1913 in review; 5 World War One, 1914-18
IntroductionBackground; Opening campaign; Conflict within Europe; Warfare outside Europe; Closing campaign; Conclusions; 6 Between two world wars; Introduction; Post-war conflict; Civil war in China; Elsewhere outside the West; The British Empire in the 1930s; The USA; Naval developments; Air power; The Japanese in China, 1931-41; The Spanish Civil War; German rearmament; Conclusions; 7 World War Two, 1939-45; Introduction; Opening campaigns, 1939-41; Soviet Union attacked, 1941; War in the Pacific, 1941-2; Axis attacks held, 1942; The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45; Beating Germany, 1943-4
D-Day, 1944Defeating Germany, 1944-5; Defeating Japan, 1943-5; Air power, 1939-45; War and society; Why the Axis lost; Conclusions; 8 Wars of decolonisation, 1945-94; Introduction; The late 1940s; The Malayan Emergency; France in Indo-China; France in Algeria; Britain and decolonisation; Portugal and decolonisation; Elsewhere in Africa; Conclusions; 9 The Cold War; Introduction; The Chinese Civil War, 1946-9; The Korean War, 1950-3; The Vietnam War; Confrontation in Europe; Planning for Armageddon; Rockets; The Afghan War; The last stages of the Cold War; Conclusions
10 Wars between non-Western powers, 1945-90Introduction; Border wars; Intervention wars; South Asia; The Middle East; Arab-Israeli wars; Latin America; Rebellions; Coups; Force and the state; Conclusions; 11 War in the 1990s; Introduction; The Gulf War, 1990-1; American operations; Somalia and Haiti; Chechnya; The former Soviet Union; Yugoslavia; Non-Western conflicts; Conclusions; 12 War in the 2000s and 2010s; Introduction; The War on Terrorism; The Revolution in Military Affairs; Attempted Revolutions in Military Affairs; War in Iraq; War in Afghanistan; Expenditure; Africa
Summary Introduction to Global Military History provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighteenth century up to the present day. Beginning with the background to the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary wars and ending with the recent conflicts of the twenty-first century, this third edition combines fully up-to-date global coverage with close analysis not only of the military aspects of war but also its social, cultural, political and economic dimensions and repercussions. The new edition includes a fully revised chapter on conflicts during the eighteenth century, updated coverage of events post-1990 and increased coverage of non-Western conflicts to provide a truly international account of the varied and changing nature of modern military history. Covering lesser-known conflicts as well as the familiar wars of history and illustrated throughout with maps, primary source extracts and case studies, it is essential reading for all students of modern military history and international relations
Notes Domestic pressures
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Subject Military history, Modern.
HISTORY -- Military -- United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
airpower.
arms.
cavalry.
conflict.
decolonization.
guerrilla.
infantry.
revolution.
strategy.
terrorism.
war.
warfare.
Military history, Modern
Form Electronic book
Author Morris, Katherine
ISBN 9780429673108
0429673108