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100			_aBlack, Jeremy.
245			_aA Short History of War / _cJeremy Black.
260			_aNew Haven and London: _bYale University Press, _c2022.
300			_aviii, 258 Pages; _c20 cm.
505			_aThe origins of conflict -- War and early states -- Egypt, Assyria, Persia -- Early Chinese warfare -- Greece and Macedon -- Indian warfare -- Rome and Hannibal -- Imperial Rome and its fall -- The 'Dark Ages' -- Feudal warfare -- Castles -- The Crusades -- The Mongols and Timur -- Early Japanese warfare -- Warfare in the New World to 1500 -- African warfare -- Australasian and Oceanic warfare -- Gunpowder on land -- The new-style fortress -- Naval reach transforms the world, 1400-1763 -- The place of battle -- The Ottoman powerhouse -- Japan and China clash -- The age of fighting sail, 1588-1827 -- China, Russia and the end of the steppe -- The collapse of European control in the New World, 1775-1825 -- Napoleonic warfare -- Wars within the West, 1816-1913 -- Nineteenth-century imperialism -- China from crisis to consolidation, 1839-1949 -- World War One -- The interwar years : assessing the threat -- World War Two -- The Cold War -- Wars of decolonisation -- Conflict since the Cold War -- War today : confrontations with states -- The confrontations of major powers -- Theorists of military history.
520			_aThroughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars-past, present, and future-to create and reinforce a common purpose.0In this engaging overview, Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Black explores too the significance of warfare more broadly and the ways in which cultural understandings of conflict have lasting consequences in societies across the world. Weaponry, Black argues, has had a fundamental impact on modes of war: it created war in the air and transformed it at sea. Today, as twentieth-century weapons are challenged by drones and robotics, Black examines what the future of warfare looks like.
650			_aWar _xHistory.
650			_aMilitary art and science _xHistory.
650			_aMilitary art and science.
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