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Maps of war : mapping conflict through the centuries / Jeremy Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military history--Maps.
- Military history.
- Military maps--History.
- Military maps.
- History.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Osprey Publishing, 2018.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Sixteenth Century First Notions Of Military Mapping
- Maps in the Classical world
- Early Asian mapping
- Ottoman Empire
- Fifteenth-century developments
- Sixteenth-century expansion
- Printed maps
- Firearms and fortification
- Religious dimensions
- The Seventeenth Century Mapping For Sieges
- Maps and pictures
- Maps for the French state
- Fortresses and siege warfare
- Swedish and Russian efforts
- Increased precision
- Military adaptation rather than revolution
- The Eighteenth Century Professional Military Planning
- New heights
- Across oceans
- Route maps
- Strategy and planning
- Public interest
- North America
- Knowledge and news
- Means of conflict
- The Nineteenth Century Mapping In An Imperial Age
- Ordnance Survey
- Topography
- Government use
- After Napoleon
- Institutional framework
- Regional interest
- Technological advances
- General Staff system
- American Civil War
- Nature of war
- First World War Total War
- Geopolitics
- Trench warfare
- Use of aircraft
- Coordination
- Wartime cartography
- Information and propaganda
- Second World War Global Conflict
- Unprecedented scale
- Three dimensions
- Restrictions and the media
- Engaging the American public
- Modern Warfare: 1945 To The Present Day From The Second World War To The Present
- Projection
- Surveys and surveillance
- Satellites
- Local level
- Modern challenges.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London: Conway, 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472830517
- 1472830512
- OCLC:
- 1064035404
- Publisher Number:
- 99988420032
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