Civil Wars : A History in Ideas

• Autore: Armitage David
• Pubblicazione: Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Disciplina: 355.02/1809
• Soggetto topico: Civil war; Military history
• Classificazione: PHI019000HIS037000
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Civil Wars
• ISBN: 0-385-35309-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162753703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II