Monographie

War and the modern world / edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • War and the modern world / edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven
Ensemble
  • The Cambridge history of war 4
Est reproduit comme
  • The Cambridge history of war Volume IV War and the modern world edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven 2012 Cambridge Cambridge University Press Cambridge Histories Online 978-1-139-02120-3
Auteur(s)
Autre(s) auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University press
Date de copyright
  • C 2012
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XIII-656 p.) : illustrations, cartes ; 24 cm
Collection
  • The Cambridge history of war volume 4
ISBN
  • 978-0-521-87577-6
EAN
  • 9780521875776
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.009 034
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliographie pages 589-624. Notes bibliographiques. Index
Note sur la reproduction
  • Version numérisée par l’édition de Cambridge : Cambridge University press, 2012
Résumé ou extrait
  • Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid-nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine', and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.
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