Product Description

This is a full-to-bursting textbook for all students of modern military history. Unique in its global scope, the book uses case studies, chapter introductions and up-to-date research and covers all aspects of the major modern conflicts.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263921 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 20 pages

Review

'Excellent. It integrates the land, sea and maritime aspects of conflict and strikes a reasonable balance between the context and the events of the history of war and conflict.' - Stanley Carpenter, Professor of Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

'An excellent stimulus to thought and to further study ... very good on the theoretical underpinning of military history, the distinction between wars and battles and the necessity of examining strategy in the political context.' - Daniel Todman, Lecturer in Modern History, Queen Mary University of London

'The analysis is at a high level ... an impressive book. The focus on Asia is a significant improvement over its competitors.' - Michael S. Neiberg, Professor of History, United States Airforce Academy

 

"An excellent book. Too often, in military studies and histories, the land, air, and maritime aspects are dealt with in separate books. This work integrates all aspects of conflict in a reasonable manner. It also strikes a necessary balance between the context and the events of the history of war and conflict in the past few centuries, not sublimating the actual history of events to the societal context of war." - Stanley Carpenter, Professor of Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island

"Jeremy Black does an admirable job in distilling a tremendous amount of information and making it comprehensible for students." - Lawrence Sondhaus, Professor of History at the University of Indianapolis

 

'This is a refreshingly wide-ranging treatment of warfare in the modern world, which testifies to Jeremy Black's impressive skills as a synthesist ... The range of examples is genuinely illuminating [and] the text is enlivened with excellent illustrations and some handy text boxes on particular case studies. These are deliberately designed to stimulate discussion.' – Keith Jefferey, The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Excellent. It integrates the land, sea and maritime aspects of conflict and strikes a reasonable balance between the context and the events of the history of war and conflict.' – Stanley Carpenter, Professor of Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College, Newport, USA

'An excellent stimulus to thought and to further study ... very good on the theoretical underpinning of military history, the distinction between wars and battles and the necessity of examining strategy in the political context.' – Daniel Todman, Lecturer in Modern History, Queen Mary University of London, UK

'The analysis is at a high level ... an impressive book. The focus on Asia is a significant improvement over its competitors.' – Michael S. Neiberg, Professor of History, United States Airforce Academy, USA

From the Back Cover

This lucid account of military developments around the modern world begins with the American War of Independence and the French revolutionary Wars and continues chronologically to the latest conflicts in the 2000s.  It combines global coverage with thought-provoking analysis dealing not only with the military aspects of conflict but also with the social, cultural, political and economic aspects and consequences of such conflict.  By placing the familiar or known alongside the largely unknown, the reader is forced to reassess the standard grand narrative of military history that rests on assumptions of Western cultural and technological superiority.  It will be essential reading for students in universities worldwide whether studying modern military history, modern world history, history and international relations or war and society.

Specially designed to be user-friendly, Introduction to Military History offers:

* chapter introductions and conclusions to assist study and revision

* 'voices of war' sourced extracts from the field of war

* case studies in each chapter to support the narrative and provoke discussion

* vivid engravings, plans, paintings and photos to bring the conflicts alive

* a 12-page colour map section plus 21 other integrated maps

* annotated references from the latest publications in the field

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is a leading military historian whose books include Rethinking Military History (Routledge 2004), World War Two: A Military History (Routledge 2003), European Warfare, 1494-1660 (Routledge 2002), European Warfare, 1660-1815 (Routledge 1994), and Why Wars Happen. He is editor of the Routledge Warfare and History series and has lecturerd extensively in North America, Europe and Australasia.

 

About the Author
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.  He is a leading military historian whose books include Rethinking Military History (Routledge, 2004), World War Two: A Military History (Routledge, 2003), European Warfare 1494-1660 (Routledge, 2002), European Warfare, 1660-1815 (Ruotledge 1994) and Why Wars Happen (1998).  He is editor of the Routledge Warfare and History series and has lectured extensively in North America, Europe and Australasia.