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Introduction to Global Military History : 1775 to the Present Day / Jeremy Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military history, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 338 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Contents:
- Assessing significance
- Publications and experimentation
- Tasks for assessment
- Naval power
- Power projection
- The west and the rest
- Outcomes and choices
- The American War of Independence
- War between the USA and Native Americans
- Europe before the French Revolution
- The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-99
- The rise of Napoleon
- Asian conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s
- The rise of Britain
- Napoleon
- The War of 1812
- The Latin American Wars of Independence
- Europe after Napoleon
- Developments elsewhere
- The aims of conflict
- The impact of technology
- The Taiping Rebellion
- The American Civil War
- The wars of German unification
- Latin America
- Western imperialism
- American expansion
- Non-western states
- East Asia
- 1789-1913 in review
- Background
- Opening campaign
- Conflict within Europe
- Warfare outside Europe
- War at sea
- Closing campaign
- 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
- Opening campaigns, 1939-41
- Soviet Union attacked, 1941
- War in the Pacific, 1941-42
- Axis attacks held, 1942
- The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45
- Beating Germany, 1943-4
- D-Day, 1944
- Defeating Germany, 1944-5
- Defeating Japan, 1943-5
- Air power, 1939-45
- War and society
- Why the axis lost
- The late 1940s
- The Malayan emergency
- France in Indo-China
- France in Algeria
- Britain and decolonisation
- Portugal and decolonisation
- Elsewhere in Africa
- The Chinese Civil War
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam War
- Confrontation in Europe
- Planning for Armageddon
- The Afghan War
- The Cold War at sea
- The last stages of the Cold War
- Border wars
- Intervention wars
- South Asia
- The Middle East
- Arab-Israeli wars
- Rebellions
- Coups
- Force and the state
- American operations
- Somalia and Haiti
- Chechnya
- The former Soviet Union
- Former Kosovo
- Third world conflict
- The war on terrorism
- The revolution in military affairs
- Attempted revolutions in military affairs
- War in Iraq
- War in Afghanistan
- Expenditure
- Africa
- Syria
- War and disorder
- Technology
- The west versus the rest
- Fitness for purpose
- Cultural interpretations
- Paradigm powers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Black, Jeremy, 1955- author. Introduction to Global Military History
- ISBN:
- 9781138922471
- 1138922471
- 9781138484191
- 1138484199
- OCLC:
- 1050454984
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