Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367610500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 364 str.

Opis

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Nineteenth Century examines insurgency and counter-insurgency across the globe in the nineteenth century.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Why a nineteenth-century study? Mark Lawrence Part 1: Insurgencies 2. The Peninsular War guerrilla and its antecedents: humiliation forgotten, disaster prefigured: the guerra fantástica of 1762 Charles Esdaile 3. Reluctant guerrillas in early nineteenth century China: the White Lotus insurgents and their suppressors Yingcong Dai 4. Regular and irregular forces in conflict: nineteenth century insurgencies in South America Alejandro M. Rabinovich and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea 5. The First Carlist War (1833–40), insurgency, Ramón Cabrera, and expeditionary warfare Mark Lawrence 6. Holmes’ front: constructing a new face of battle for America’s Civil War Susan-Mary Grant 7. Memory, magic and militias: Cora Indian participation in Mexico’s wars, from the reforma to the revolution (1854-1920) Nathaniel Morris 8. Guerrilla warfare in Katanga: the Sanga rebellion of the 1890s and its suppression Giacomo Macola and Jack Hogan Part 2: Counterinsurgencies 9. Ireland: rebellion and counter-insurgency, 1848–1867 Timothy Bowman 10. ‘The extraordinary successes which the Russians have achieved’ - the Conquest of Central Asia in Callwell’s Small Wars Alexander Morrison 11. General Zuo’s counter-insurgency doctrine Kenneth M. Swope 12. A predisposition to brutality? German practices against civilians and francs-tireurs during the Franco-Prussian war 1870–1871 and their relevance for the German ‘military Sonderweg’ debate Bastian Matteo Scianna 13. The campaign of the lost footsteps: the pacification of Burma, 1885-95 Ian F. W. Beckett 14. The Force Publique’s campaigns in the Congo-Arab War, 1892-1894 Mario Draper 15. Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa Richard Reid 16. Conclusion Mark Lawrence

O autorze

Mark Lawrence is Lecturer in Modern Hispanic and Military History at the University of Kent, UK, and Director of Military History at the University of Kent (2019–2020). He is author of the award-winning Spanish Civil Wars (2017), Nineteenth-Century Spain (2019) and Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Policing in Centre-West Mexico, 1926–1929: Fighting Cristeros (2020).