Unknown wars of Asia, Africa and the America's that changed history
By: Steven M. Johnson
Publisher: Atlas World Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780615846200; 9781494362126
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: War; History; Influence; Politics and war; Economic aspects; Guerre; Histoire; Politique et guerre; Aspect économique
Other titles: Unknown wars of Asia, Africa and the Americas that changed history
Description: The stories of the "Unknown Wars of Asia, Africa and The Americas" were cataclysmic and bloody events that took the lives of millions and impact our world to this day. Yet, most of these wars are hardly mentioned in articles or even textbooks.
Notes: Title should read: Unknown wars of Asia, Africa and the Americas that changed history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The wars of the Great Wall of China: 1,000 BC - 1644 AD; title: The longest war: Vietnam's war of independence 111 BC - 938; title: Blood in the water: the Khmer Empire, and the unlikely king; title: Blood on the altar: the Jewish war 66 - 73 AD; title: Hadrian's nightmare: the Bar Kokhba Revolt 132 - 136 AD; title: The Mongol conquest of China: 1205 - 1279; title: Death by a thousand cuts: Kublai Khan's nightmare in Syria, Japan, Burma, Vietnam, and Java; title: Conquistadors and Indians: Spain's doomed apocalyptic expeditions through southeastern North America from 1526 - 1568; title: Spain's conquest of the American Southwest 1539 - 1822; title: England's pirate wars: 1568 - 1725; title: Christian holocaust: the Thirty Years War 1618 -1648; title: The wars for control of the African slave trade: 1502 - 1850; title: African slave revolts in the Caribbean and South America; title: Blood in the fields: the Haitian slave revolution 1792 - 1803; title: A settlement dark and bloody: The Cherokee wars 1654 - 1865; title: God's Chinese son: the Taiping Rebellion 1851 -1871; title: The French conquest of Indo-China; title: The Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905: the first modern war; title: The war that half the world is expecting in the near future.