A short history of war / Jeremy Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jeremy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--History.

War.

Military art and science--History.

Military art and science.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Place of Publication:

2021.

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2021.

Summary:

A wonderfully engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future.

Contents:

The origins of conflict

War and early states

Egypt, Assyria, Persia

Early Chinese warfare

Greece and Macedon

Indian warfare

Rome and Hannibal

Imperial Rome and its fall

The 'Dark Ages'

Feudal warfare

Castles

The Crusades

The Mongols and Timur

Early Japanese warfare

Warfare in the New World to 1500

African warfare

Australasian and Oceanic warfare

Gunpowder on land

The new-style fortress

Naval reach transforms the world, 1400-1763

The place of battle

The Ottoman powerhouse

Japan and China clash

The age of fighting sail, 1588-1827

China, Russia and the end of the steppe

The collapse of European control in the New World, 1775-1825

Napoleonic warfare

Wars within the West, 1816-1913

Nineteenth-century imperialism

China from crisis to consolidation, 1839-1949

World War One

The interwar years : assessing the threat

World War Two

The Cold War

Wars of decolonisation

Conflict since the Cold War

War today : confrontations with states

The confrontations of major powers

Theorists of military history.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-300-26295-7

9780300262957

OCLC:

1267763525