On wars / Michael Mann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mann, Michael, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

War--History.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (616 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe-from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

1. Military Power and War

2. Is War Universal?

3. Theories of the Causes of War

4. The Roman Republic

5. Ancient China

6. Imperial China

7. Medieval and Modern Japan

8. A Thousand Years of Europe

9. Seven Hundred Years of South and Central America

10. The Decline of War?

11. Fear and Loathing on the Battlefield I: From Ancient Times to the American Civil War

12. Fear and Loathing on the Battlefield II: The World Wars

13. Fear and Loathing on the Battlefield III: Communist Wars

14. Recent Wars in Muslim Countries

15. Possible Futures

CONCLUSION: Patterns of War

Notes

Bibliography

Index

31-72

73-98

08_01-15

16-59

60-65

09_01-31

32-72

73-97

10_01-15

16-58

59-100

11_01-41

42-57

12_01-24

25-68

69-108

109-151

13_01-42

43-84

14_01-41

42-77

15_01-06

Con_01-16.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-584) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300274974

0300274971

OCLC:

1390561680