04010oam 2200697I 450 991078982680332120220626083957.01-317-48991-81-317-48992-61-315-71076-51-282-92133-91-84465-328-510.4324/9781315710761(CKB)2670000000080519(EBL)1900189(SSID)ssj0000675157(PQKBManifestationID)11418769(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675157(PQKBWorkID)10669467(PQKB)10881493(MiAaPQ)EBC1900189(Au-PeEL)EBL1900189(CaPaEBR)ebr10455587(CaONFJC)MIL292133(OCoLC)898771386(OCoLC)958110019(OCoLC)715185235(FINmELB)ELB135987(UkCbUP)CR9781844653287(EXLCZ)99267000000008051920180706e20142001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWestern warfare, 1775-1882 /Jeremy BlackAbingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) digital, PDF file(s)First published 2001 by Acumen.1-902683-29-3 1-902683-28-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Western Warfare in its Global Context, 1775-1815; 2 Two Episodes of Modernity? The American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars; 3 Napoleon and His Opponents; 4 Naval Power and Warfare; 5 The Global Context, 1815-82; 6 After Waterloo: Conflict Within the West, 1815-60; 7 Conflict Within the West, 1861-82; 8 Social and Political Contexts; 9 Conclusions: Revisiting Modernity; Notes; Selected Bibliography; IndexThis is a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of warfare from the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the British conquest of Egypt. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources the book offers an unrivalled account of civil and international conflicts involving Western powers, integrating both naval and land warfare. The book covers military capability as well as conflict, social and political contexts as well as weaponry, tactics and strategy. As well as examining such major conflicts as the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the American Civil War and the Wars of German Unification, the book redresses the imbalance of previous treatments by examining other important conflicts, for example, those in Latin America, as well as insurgency and counter-insurgency in Europe. The book's global perspective provides for a more reliable assessment of what constitutes military capability. In so doing, the author challenges the technological determinism and linear conceptions of developments in military science that continue to characterise much of military history. Instead the author reveals a much more complex dynamic, indeed going so far as to question the idea of "modernity" itself. Bold in scope, and cutting-edge in its interpretations, the book offers much for the student, general reader and professional historian alike.Military art and scienceHistory18th centuryMilitary art and scienceHistory19th centuryMilitary history, Modern18th centuryMilitary history, Modern19th centuryMilitary art and scienceHistoryMilitary art and scienceHistoryMilitary history, ModernMilitary history, Modern355.0209Black Jeremy1955-,144601UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910789826803321Western warfare, 1775-18823684622UNINA