A Violent Peace : A Global Military History of the Interwar Period / Edited by Ian Ona Johnson and Robert Clemm ; Foreword by Rober M. Citino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Ian Ona, editor.

Clemm, Robert, editor.

Citino, Robert Michael, 1958- writer of foreword.

Series:

Modern War Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military history, Modern--20th century.

Military history, Modern.

Nineteen twenties.

Nineteen thirties.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2025]

Summary:

A cutting-edge analysis of the interwar period as one fundamentally international in scope and deeply violent in nature. World War I destroyed the world that had come before. It shattered three empires and fueled new nationalisms and ideologies that threatened to destroy those that remained. It left millions in its wake with military training and access to weaponry, creating networks of violence that would spread across much of the globe. This violence in the interwar period resulted in more deaths than during the Great War, most of them outside of Europe. While studies of the First and Second World Wars have become more international and interconnected, our understanding of the interwar period remains dominated by national narratives. A Violent Peace offers a new perspective, stretching across four continents and drawing together a multitude of conflicts, large and small: from the Spanish Civil War to the Wewel Incident in Ethiopia; from the small RAF force involved in Somaliland to the hundreds of thousands in the Chinese Nationalist Encirclement Campaigns; from the conflicts surrounding newly formed states in the Polish-Soviet War to a settling of much older accounts in South America. The themes and patterns from this global era are drawn together in a cohesive analysis, including key studies on the utilization of technology, the growing importance of ideology, and how the Great War shaped the nature of these conflicts. A Violent Peace provides a fresh angle on a tumultuous era and challenges readers to reconsider their preconceived ideas about the interwar period.

Contents:

The Interwar Militarization of the Indo-Afghan Frontier / Elisabeth Leake

Ephemeral Victory: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-1921 / Ian Ona Johnson

The Arabian Peninsula Wars, 1919-1934 / Sultan Alamer

Interwar Conflict in Africa, 1919-1939 / Timothy Stapleton

Airpower and Empire: Somaliland, Iraq, and the Development of the Royal Air Force / Robert Clemm

Against the Untamed Mountains: the Rif War, 1921-1926 / William Waddell

The Welwel Incident: Territorial Conflicts Preceding the Second Italo-Ethiopian War / Quentin Holbert

The Nanjing Decade in China, 1928-1937 / Bruce A. Elleman

The Soviet Intervention in Xinjiang during the 1930s / Chris Miller

The Manchukuo Army: Japanese Native Counterinsurgency and War in Northeast Asia, 1905-1937 / Ryan Schultz

The Chaco War, 1932-1935 / Bridget María Chesterton

The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 / Michael Seidman

Notes:

Electronic book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780700638741

OCLC:

1528873682