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Autore |
Armitage David |
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Titolo |
Civil Wars : A History in Ideas |
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Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil war |
Military history |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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"-- |
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