Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World HistoryWaging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of the species until the current rise of the so-called Islamic State. Although it covers many societies throughout time, the book does not attempt to tell all stories from all places, nor does it try to narrate "important" conflicts. Instead, author Wayne E. Lee 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." |
Contents
Capacity Calculation and Culture | 1 |
1 The Origins of War and of the State to 2500 BCE | 9 |
2 Carts Chariots Catastrophe and Cavalry 3500700 BCE | 52 |
3 Men in Lines with Spears 900300 BCE | 85 |
4 Discipline and Frontiers in the Agricultural Rome and China 300 BCE400 CE | 117 |
5 The Horsemen of Europe and the Steppe 4001450 CE | 151 |
6 War under Oars 700 BCE1600 CE | 180 |
7 Gunpowder in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire 13001650 CE | 215 |
China Japan and Europe 16501815 | 293 |
10 The Age of Steam and the Industrial Empires 18151905 | 329 |
11 Men against Fire 18611917 | 365 |
12 Wars of Maneuver 19182003 | 404 |
13 The Lure of Strategic Air Power the Nuclear Paradox and the Revolution in Military Affairs? 19152003 | 440 |
Guerrillas Insurgents Terrorism and Counterinsurgency 19302014 | 482 |
Credits | 523 |
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