Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History Paperback

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199797455
ISBN-13
9780199797455
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211812142

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Waging War : Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History
Publication Year
2015
Subject
Military / General, World
Type
Textbook
Author
Wayne E. Lee
Subject Area
History
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2015-008401
Reviews
"It takes the sharp interdisciplinary mind of Wayne E. Lee to bring together so much material over such a broad span of history and make it not only intelligible but fresh and exciting to read. He has given us a truly global history of war that will serve as one of the standards in the field for years to come."--Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I "Wayne E. Lee's incisive overview of innovation in warfare convincingly shows the importance of both technology and technique in military competition. He skillfully embeds military matters in their larger social, political, and economic contexts to provide one of the very few world histories of warfare."--J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University "Waging War ranks as the most important survey of humankind's warrior past in decades. This accessible and yet profound work is a superb act of vision and of intellectual courage."--John Lynn, University of Illinois "Waging War is a far-reaching study of war that brilliantly probes the theme of innovation. This important work deserves wide attention."--Jeremy Black, author of A Century of Conflict: War, 1914-2014
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
355.02
Table Of Content
List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Preface About the Author Introduction: Capacity, Calculation, and Culture 1. The Origins of War and of the State: to 2500 BCE Is War Innate? War among Animals, Chimpanzees The Evidence for Early Human Warfare Biology and Selection Sedentism, Agriculture, and War A Lord among Lords and the Rise of the State Warring Complex Societies outside the State 2. Carts, Chariots, Cavalry, and Catastrophe: 3500-700 BCE Kings and Carts Inventing the Chariot: Tribes, Horses, and Bronze on the Steppe Chariots and the Urban Politics of the Near East and Egypt 1500-1200 BCE Chariots under Heaven: China, 1200-400 BCE Gods and Heroes: The Chariot in India and Europe Catastrophe, Cavalry, and the Decline of the Chariot in the Near East 3. Men in Lines with Spears: 900 BCE-300 BCE Masses of Men in the Background Assyria Reborn Communal Solidarity and the Greek Hoplite Phalanx The Macedonian Sarissa Phalanx 4. Discipline and Frontiers in the Agricultural Empires: Rome and China, 300 BCE-400 CE Rome: Disciplina and Limes Infantrymen and Walls in Han China 5. The Horsemen of Europe and the Steppe: 400 CE-1450 CE European Heavy Horsemen The Steppe Warrior System The Mongols 6. War under Oars: 700 BCE-1600 CE The Earliest Shipping The Trireme and the Mediterranean Variations on a Theme: Hellenistic Invention and Gigantism, Rome, Greek Fire, and the Gunpowder Galley 7. Gunpowder in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire: 1300 CE-1650 CE Europe and the Ottoman Empire 1300-1683 The Technology of Gunpowder and Gunpowder Weapons Siege Cannon to 1650 The Artillery Fortress, 1450 to 1650 Infantry and Firearms, 1450-1650 Conclusion: A Military Revolution? 8. Adapting to Gunpowder (or not): On the Open Seas, Africa, North America, and Asia Maritime Power The Gun-Slave Cycle in Africa? Amerindians and Gunpowder Gunpowder and the Steppe: China from Ming to Manchu Conclusion: The Military Revolution Problem 9. Institutionalization, Bureaucratization, and Professionalization: China, Japan, and Europe: 1650-1815 Manchu China Private Enterprise War in Europe to 1650 Institutionalization, Bureaucratization, and Professionalization in Europe, 1650-1789 Japan's Variant Path, 1500-1868 The Levée en Masse and Mass Conscript Armies 10. The Age of Steam and the Industrial Empires, 1815-1905 Invention and Production Coal & Steam Navies Scrambling for Empire The Rise of Japan 11. Men Against Fire, 1861-1917 The American Civil War: A False Dawn of "Modern War"? Prussian Reforms, a General Staff, and German Unification Firepower Firepower and the Scramble for Empire: Dahomey and Ethiopia World War I 12. Wars of Maneuver?: 1919-2003 Doctrine Avoiding Deadlock and World War II The German Model? The Arab-Israeli Wars AirLand Battle 13. The Lure of Strategic Air Power, The Nuclear Paradox, and the Revolution in Military Affairs?: 1915-2003 Strategic Bombing, 1915 to July 1945 Nuclear Weapons as Air Power The Nuclear Shadow and Limited War in Korea and Vietnam The Return of Strategic Air Power and the Revolution in Military Affairs? 14. Bringing Down the State: Guerrillas, Insurgents, Terrorism, and Counterinsurgency, 1930-2014 The Revolutionary Response to the Industrial State: Mao, Giap, and Guevara Terrorism and Insurgency by Terrorism Counterinsurgency and Counter Terror Credits Index
Synopsis
Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of the species until the current rise of the so-called Islamic State. Although it covers many societies throughout time, the book does not attempt to tell all stories from all places, nor does it try to narrate "important" conflicts. Instead, author Wayne E. Lee describes the emergence of military innovations and systems, examining how they were created and then how they moved or affected other societies. These innovations are central to most historical narratives, including the development of social complexity, the rise of the state, the role of the steppe horseman, the spread of gunpowder, the rise of the west, the bureaucratization of military institutions, the industrial revolution and the rise of firepower, strategic bombing and nuclear weapons, and the creation of "people's war."
LC Classification Number
U27.L44 2015

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