Waging War
Subtitle: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 01, 2015
Place of publication: New York City, USA
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780199797455
Description: 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." --From publisher description.
Notes: Source title: Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History
Table of contents: title: List of Figures
pagenum: xiiii; title: List of Maps
pagenum: xv; title: List of Tables
pagenum: xvi; title: Preface
pagenum: xvii; title: About the Author
pagenum: xxi; title: Introduction: Capacity, Calculation and Culture
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: The Origin of Wars and the State (to 2500 BCE)
pagenum: 9; title: Is War Innate?; title: War among Animals: Chimpanzees; title: The Evidence for Early Human Warfare; title: Biology and Selection; title: Sedentism, Agriculture, and War; title: A Lord among Lords and the Rise of the State; title: Warring Complex Societies outside the State; label: 2
title: Carts, Chariots, Catastrophe, and Cavalry (3500–700 BCE)
pagenum: 52; title: Kings and Carts; title: Inventing the Chariot: Tribes, Horses, and Bronze on the Steppe, 6000–160 BCE; title: Chariots and the Urban Politics of the Near East and Egypt, 1500–1200 BCE; title: Chariots under Heaven: China, 1200–400 BCE; title: Gods and Heroes: The Chariot in India and Europe; title: Catastrophe, Cavalry, and the Declince of the Chariot in the Near East; label: 3
title: Men in Lines with Spears (900–300 BCE)
pagenum: 85; title: Masses of Men in the Background; title: Assyria Reborn; title: Communal Solidarity and the Greep Hoplite Phalanx; title: The Macedonian Sarissa Phalanx; label: 4
title: Discipline and Frontiers in the Agricultural Empires Rome and China (300–400 CE)
pagenum: 117; title: Rome: Discipline and Limes; title: Infantrymen and Walls in Han China; label: 5
title: The Horsemen of Europe and The Steppe (400–1450 CE)
pagenum: 151; title: European Heavy Horsemen; title: The Steppe Warrior System; title: The Mongols; label: 6
title: War under Oars (700 BCE–1600 CE); title: The Earliest Shipping; title: The Trireme and the Mediterranean; title: Variations on a Theme: Hellenistic Invention and Gigantism, Rome, Greek Fire, and the Gunpowder Galley; label: 7
title: Gunpowder in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire (1300–1650 CE)
pagenum: 215; title: Europe and the Ottoman Empire 1300–1683; title: The Technology of Gunpowder and Gunpowder Weapons; title: Siege Cannon to 1650; title: The Artillery Fortress, 1450–1650; title: Infantry and Firearms, 1450–1650; title: Conclusion: A Military Revolution; label: 8
title: Adapting to Gundpowder (or not) on the Open Seas, Africa, North America, and Asia
pagenum: 254; title: Maritime Power; title: The Gun-Slave Cycle in Africa?; title: Amerindians and Gunpowder; title: Gunpowder and the Steppe: China from Ming to Manchu; title: Conclusion: The Military Revolution Problem; label: 9
title: Institutionalization, Bureaucratization, And Professionalization in China, Japan,and Europe (1650–1815)
pagenum: 293; title: Qing (Manchu) China; title: Private Enterprise War in Europe to 1650; title: Institutionalization, Bureaucratization, and Professionalization in Europe, 1650–1789; title: Japan’s Variant Path, 1500–1868; title: The Levée en masse and Mass Conscript Armies; label: 10
title: The Age of Steam and the Industrial Empires (1815–1905)
pagenum: 329; title: Invention and Production; title: Coal and Steam Navies; title: Scrambling for Empire; title: The Rise of Japan; label: 11
title: Men Against Fire (1861–1917)
pagenum: 365; title: The American Civil War: A False Dawn of “Modern War”?; title: Prussian Reforms, General Staff, and German Unification; title: Firepower; title: Firepower and the Scramble for Empire: Dahomey and Ethiopia; title: World War I; label: 12
title: Wars of Maneuver (1918–2003)
pagenum: 404; title: Doctrine; title: Avoiding Deadlock: Methodical Battle, Blitzkrieg, and Deep Battle; title: The German Model?; title: The Arab-lsraeli Wars; title: Air Land Battle; label: 13
title: The Lure Of Strategic Air Power, The Nuclear Paradox, And The Revolution In Military Affairs? (1915–2003)
pagenum: 440; title: Strategic Bombing, 1915 to July 1945; title: Nuclear Weapons as Air Power; title: The Nuclear Shadow and Limited War in Korea and Vietnam; title: The Return of Strategic Air Power and the Revolution in Military Affairs?; label: 14
title: Bringing Down The State: Guerrillas, Insurgents, Terrorism, and Counterinsurgency, 1930-2014
pagenum: 482; title: The Revolutionary Response to the Industrial State: Mao, Giap, and Guevara; title: Terrorism and Insurgency by Terrorism; title: Counterinsurgency and Counter Terror; title: Appendix; title: Credits
pagenum: 523; title: Index
pagenum: 527