Insurgency and counterinsurgency : a global history /
Black, Jeremy,1955-author.
"A world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states."--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index.
Introduction -- Insurgency to 1500 -- Contesting religion and power, 1500-1700 -- Entering the modern? The eighteenth century -- Insurgencies in an age of imperialism: the nineteenth century -- The ideology of people's war refracted, 1900-1940 -- Insurrections at a height, 1940-60 -- The fall of empires, 1960-80 -- The variety of goals and means, 1980s -- After the Cold War, 1990s -- Interventionism and its failings, 2000s -- A world without shape? The present -- Speculations about the future -- Conclusions.
"A world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states."--Provided by publisher.
Insurgency
Counterinsurgency
Insurgency and counterinsurgency.