The arc of war
Subtitle: origins, escalation, and transformation
By: Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson
Contributors: Thompson, William R.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780226476285; 9780226476292
Subjects: Sociological aspects; War and civilization; War; Social evolution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of war; title: The origins of war; title: Evolutionary and coevolutionary processes; title: The first two agrarian warfare accelerations; title: The third evolutionary acceleration; title: The coevolution of the western military trajectory; title: Nonwestern military trajectories; title: The coevolution of war, past and future.