LEADER 04010oam 2200697I 450 001 9910813542003321 005 20220626083957.0 010 $a1-317-48991-8 010 $a1-317-48992-6 010 $a1-315-71076-5 010 $a1-282-92133-9 010 $a1-84465-328-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315710761 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080519 035 $a(EBL)1900189 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000675157 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11418769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675157 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669467 035 $a(PQKB)10881493 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1900189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1900189 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10455587 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL292133 035 $a(OCoLC)898771386 035 $a(OCoLC)958110019 035 $a(OCoLC)715185235 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135987 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781844653287 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080519 100 $a20180706e20142001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWestern warfare, 1775-1882 /$fJeremy Black 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aFirst published 2001 by Acumen. 311 $a1-902683-29-3 311 $a1-902683-28-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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; Index 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aMilitary art and science$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMilitary art and science$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMilitary history, Modern$y18th century 606 $aMilitary history, Modern$y19th century 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary history, Modern 615 0$aMilitary history, Modern 676 $a355.0209 700 $aBlack$b Jeremy$f1955-,$0144601 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813542003321 996 $aWestern warfare, 1775-1882$94060018 997 $aUNINA