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This collection constitutes the definitive guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modern military history. It provides the reader with a clear and up-to-date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history, ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and across the technological, political, social, and cultural dimensions of military history.

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Introduction; M.Hughes & W.J.Philpott Military Revolutions and Military History; L.Henninger Warfare and the Rise of the State; A.James War and Society; M.Neiberg Military Thought from Machiavelli to Liddell Hart; N.Gardner Tactics, Operations and Strategy: The Evolution of Land Warfare from Machiavelli to Desert Storm; W.Chinn Low-Intensity Conflicts, Insurgency, Terrorism and Revolutionary War; J.Cann Total War; W.J.Philpott Air Power; J.Buckley Naval Warfare; A.Lambert Non-European Warfare; B.Vandervort Imperial Military History; P.Stanley Science, Technology and War; M.Hughes New Military History; J.Bourke

Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History

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      Publisher Palgrave USA
      Published 5 October 2006
      ISBN-13 9781403917683
      978-1403917683
      ISBN-10 140391768X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This collection constitutes the definitive guide for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying modern military history. It provides the reader with a clear and up-to-date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history, ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and across the technological, political, social, and cultural dimensions of military history.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; M.Hughes & W.J.Philpott Military Revolutions and Military History; L.Henninger Warfare and the Rise of the State; A.James War and Society; M.Neiberg Military Thought from Machiavelli to Liddell Hart; N.Gardner Tactics, Operations and Strategy: The Evolution of Land Warfare from Machiavelli to Desert Storm; W.Chinn Low-Intensity Conflicts, Insurgency, Terrorism and Revolutionary War; J.Cann Total War; W.J.Philpott Air Power; J.Buckley Naval Warfare; A.Lambert Non-European Warfare; B.Vandervort Imperial Military History; P.Stanley Science, Technology and War; M.Hughes New Military History; J.Bourke

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