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Book SynopsisExamines the role of the culture in shaping military institutions and military choices
Trade Review"A terrific demonstration of the fresh insights cultural analysis can bring to military history. The fascinating range of case studies shows that cultures of war are recoverable—and well worth recovering—from Assyrian times to the present and from all over the globe." -- Stephen Morillo,Professor of History, Wabash College
"This book provides the best introduction yet published to the wide and exciting study of war and culture. Readers interested in war, culture, and their roles in global history will find here some of the best current research and writing on the topic." -- Michael S. Neiberg,author of Dance of the Furies
"No future discussion of this fraught topic will be complete without this collection of essays. Vivid arguments, telling points, striking reformulations: this will be a standard work for decades." -- Robert Citino,author of The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich
Table of ContentsList of Maps 1 Warfare and Culture Wayne E. Lee 2 The Last Campaign: The Assyrian Way of War and the Collapse of the Empire Sarah C. Melville 3 Disciplining Octavian: A Case Study of Roman Military Culture, 44-30 BCE Lee L. Brice 4 Of Bureaucrats and Bandits: Confucianism and Antirebel Strategy at the End of the Ming Dynasty Kenneth M. Swope 5 The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660-1789 John A. Lynn II 6 Success and Failure in Civil War Armies: Clues from Organizational Culture Mark Grimsley 7 German Military Culture and the Colonial War in Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 Isabel V. Hull 8 Connecting Culture and the Battlefield: Britain and the Empire Fight the Hundred Days David Silbey 9 The American Culture of War in the Age of Artificial Limited War Adrian R. Lewis About the Contributors Index
