Resort to arms: international and civil wars, 1816-1980

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Sage Publications, Apr 1, 1982 - History - 373 pages
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`Small and Singer have made a valuable collection of data even more valuable by opening up more possibilities for systematic research on conflict.' -- The Annals, Vol 475, Sept 1984

`At first glance one could easily miss the point that this book is the second edition of The Wages of War (with a new title and authorship reversed). But surely the reissuing of the source-book for the single most important data-collection effort in peace research to date calls for celebration. The extensive bibliography of the Correlates of War project, published in the back of this book, testifies to the range and importance of the research which has resulted from the painstaking work performed by Singer and Small. However, there's sufficient new material in this book for any librarian to be undeterred by the words "second edition". The lists of inter-state wars have been expanded from 50 to 67, and that of extra-systemic wars from 43 to 51...Like its predecessor, this volume will be a standard reference source for empirical work on war in the modern age.' -- Journal of Peace Research, Vol 19 No 3, 1982

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Contents

Acknowledgments to the First Edition
11
Rationale and Procedures
21
CIVIL
36
Copyright

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0O O 0O 0O OO amount analysis Argentina Austria-Hungary battle deaths battle-connected deaths Bodart Boxer Rebellion casualties central system chapter China civil wars Colombia colonial column combat compute conflict Congress of Vienna correlation criteria deaths per capita deaths per nation distribution duration entities estimates extra-systemic wars fluctuations fought frequency given Hugh Wheeler incidence included indicators intensity interstate system interstate wars involved Italian Unification magnitude major power measures Melvin Small military months and battle nation months North Vietnam number of battle number of nations number of wars O0 OO onset OO 0O OO O0 OO OO participants pattern period political population procedures qualified rank order rank position ratios REALPOLITIK region Richardson 1960a Russia Second severity Sorokin system member system membership tion total number trend types United Uruguay variables victory war-proneness war's World Wright

About the author (1982)

Melvin Small is Distinguished Professor of History at Wayne State University and chair of the university's Abraham Lincoln Brigade Scholarship Fund. His most recent book is "At the Water's Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War".

Political Science, University of Michigan.

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TitleResort to arms: international and civil wars, 1816-1980
AuthorsMelvin Small, Joel David Singer
Edition2, illustrated, reprint
PublisherSage Publications, 1982
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 20, 2010
ISBN0803917767, 9780803917767
Length373 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Military / General
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Peace
War
War/ Statistics
  
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