Twentieth-century war and conflict : a concise encyclopedia / / edited by Gordon Martel ; cover image, Jack Sullivan

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (436 pages)
• Disciplina: 355.0209/0403
• Soggetto topico: Military history, Modern - 20th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Military History; History
• Classificazione: 209.7; 355.0209/0403
• Persona (resp. second.): SullivanJack
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia; Copyright; Contents; List of Entries; List of Maps; Chronological Guide to Entries; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Editor's Preface; A; Algerian War ofIndependence (1954-1962); A Angolan Civil Wars (1975-2002); A Arab-Israeli Conflict; The 1948 War; The 1956 War; The 1967 War; The 1968-1970 War of Attrition; The 1973 War; The 1982 War in Lebanon; The 1987 Intifada; The Second Intifada; The Second Lebanon War; B; B Balkan Wars (1912-1913); Further Reading; B Biological Warfare: Past, Present, and Future ; Definitions and ConceptsHistorical Background; World War II; Biological Weapons and the Cold War; New Threats, New Players; Bioterrorism and New Biological Weapons; C; Chechnya Wars (1990s-Present); Further Reading; Chemical Warfare; Definitions and Categories of Weapons; Poison and Early Chemical Weapons; World War I and Poison Gas; Interwar Years; World War II; Post-War Developments; Future Concerns; China, Invasion of (1931, 1937-1945); Further Reading; Chinese Civil War (Modern); Further Reading; Combat Film; World War II and the Emergence of the Combat Film ; The Development of the Combat Film after World War IIThe Vietnam War Film; Saving Private Ryan and the Revival of the Combat Film; Congo Wars (1960s-2000s); Further Reading; E; Ethnic Cleansing; Definition; Origin; What Is Ethnic Cleansing?; Ethnic Cleansing as a Practice; Ethnic Cleansing as a Policy; Ethnic Cleansing as a Crime; F; Falklands War (1982); First Indochina War (1945-1954); G; Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922); I; Gulf Wars (1990-1991, 2003-Present); Gulf War (1990-1991); Gulf War (2003-Present); Conclusions; Indo-Pakistani Wars (1947-1948, 1965, 1971); 1947-1948; 1965; 1971 ; Iraq-Iran War (1980-1988)Irish Revolution, Wars of the; Background to the Irish Revolution; The Easter Rising, April 24-29, 1916; The Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921; Civil War, 1922-1923; Italo-Abyssinian Wars; First Italo-Abyssinian War (1887-1896); Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1936); K; Korean War (1949-1953); Korea's Partition and the Emergence of Rival Korean Regimes, 1945-1948; Civil and International War, 1948-1950; Occupations and Atrocities; Chinese Intervention; Prisoners of War; Armistice; Legacies; L; Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990); Roots of the Civil War ; Civil War in Lebanon: Main StagesM; M Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); M Mau Mau Emergency (1952-1960); N; National Liberation, Wars of; Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970); P; Peacekeeping; Problem of Definition; R; Origins of Peacekeeping; Peacekeeping in the Cold War; Peacekeeping after the Cold War; Peacekeeping Beyond the UN; A "New Peacekeeping?"; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Definitions; Nostalgia, Nervousness, and the Modern Man; World War I and Shell Shock; World War II : No "Open Sesame" to the Base; The Development of PTSD; After DSM-III; Psychological Warfare ; Russian Civil War (1917-1920)
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day.Provides essential coverage of twentieth-century warfare across the worldIncorporates entries on all major wars, conflicts and concepts in the study of warfare during the periodFeatures detailed coverage of the First and Second World Wars, along with conflicts including the Russo-Japanese War, the Greco-Tur
• Titolo autorizzato: Twentieth-century war and conflict
• ISBN: 1-118-88465-5; 1-118-88466-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820649003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New York Academy of Sciences book series