European Warfare: 1815-2000

ISBN-13: 9780333786680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str.

Jeremy Black

Opis

In this account of European warfare since 1815, important treatments of major conflicts-especially World Wars I and II-are combined with insightful analyses of military developments and of their wider political and social contexts. European imperial warfare also receives due attention.European Warfare 1815-2000 recognizes war as a topic of major importance in understanding the development of the modern world, particularly Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction; J.Black.- Europe's Way of War 1815-1864; D.Showalter.- European Warfare 1864-1914; J.Black.- The First World War; S.Tucker.- The European Civil War; F.J.Romero Salvado.- The Second World War; S.P.Mackenzie.- Colonial Wars; B.Vandervort.- Naval Power and Warfare; L.Sondhaus.- The Transformation of War in Europe 1945-2000; W.Chin.

O autorze

JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include War and the World 1450-2000 and War in the New Century

Blurb

In this up-to-date account of European warfare since 1815, important treatments of major conflicts - especially World Wars I and II - are combined with insightful analyses of military developments and of their wider political and social contexts. European imperial warfare also receives due attention. European Warfare 1815-2000 recognises war as a topic of major importance in understanding the development of the modern world, particularly Europe. The contributors, all leading experts in their fields, are open to theoretical developments in the subject, but also understand the difficulty of 'fitting' war to any abstract model. Ranging up to the present, this is an original and fascinating volume.