Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World

Name: Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780521875776

ISBN-10: 0521875773

ISBN-13: 9780521875776

Edition: 2012

Authors: Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter, Hans van de Ven

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Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the…

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List price: $257.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 668
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 2.618
Language: English

Dennis Showalter is a professor of history at Colorado College who specializes in German military history. He is also the former president of the American Society for Military History. Showalter has previously taught at the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Military Academy, and the Marine Corps University. He is the author of many books including Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the 20th Century . He lives in Colorado Springs.



Introduction



The Industrialization of Warfare, 1850-1914



The wars of mid century




War, technology and industrial change, 1850-1914




War and imperial expansion




The non-western world responds to imperialism, 1850-1914




War, society, and culture, 1850-1914: the rise of militarism




War-making and restraint by law: the formative years, 1864-1914




The arms race: qualitative and quantitative aspects




The Era of Total War, 1914-45



World War I




Military captivity in two world wars: legal frameworks and camp regimes




Military occupations, 1914-45




Homefronts: the mobilization of resources for total war




The search for peace in the interwar period




Commemorating war, 1914-45




Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era




The military and the revolutionary state




World War II




Post-Total Warfare, 1945-2005



Military occupations, 1945-55




The wars after the War, 1945-54




Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages




Conventional war, 1945-90




Wars of decolonization, 1945-75




War and memory since 1945




The era of American hegemony, 1989-2005