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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162753703321

Autore

Armitage David

Titolo

Civil Wars : A History in Ideas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-385-35309-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Classificazione

PHI019000HIS037000

Disciplina

355.02/1809

Soggetti

Civil war

Military history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Note on Conventions -- Introduction: Confronting Civil War -- Part I: Roads from Rome -- 1: Inventing Civil War: The Roman Tradition -- 2: Remembering Civil War: Roman Visions -- Part II: Early Modern Crossroads -- 3: Uncivil Civil Wars: The Seventeenth Century -- 4: Civil War in an Age of Revolutions: The Eighteenth Century -- Part III: Paths to the Present -- 5: Civilizing Civil War: The Nineteenth Century -- 6: Worlds of Civil War: The Twentieth Century -- Conclusion: Civil Wars of Words -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Note About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

"A highly original history, tracing civil war, the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression, from Ancient Rome through the centuries to present day"--