Civil wars
Subtitle: a history in ideas
By: David Armitage
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780307271136
Subjects: Military history; Philosophy; Civil war
Description: "A highly original history, tracing civil war, the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression, from Ancient Rome through the centuries to present day"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : confronting civil war; title: Part I: Roads from Rome. Inventing civil war : the Roman tradition ; Remembering civil war : Roman visions; title: Part II: Early modern crossroads. Uncivil civil wars : the seventeenth century ; Civil war in an age of revolutions : the eighteenth century; title: Part III: Paths to the present. Civilizing civil war : the nineteenth century ; Worlds of civil war : the twentieth century; title: Conclusion : civil wars of words.