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Rethinking Military History
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Rethinking Military History
von: Jeremy Black
Routledge, 2004
ISBN: 9780203337462
272 Seiten, Download: 1314 KB
 
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

  Contents 8  
  Preface 10  
  Abbreviations 15  
  Chapter 1 Introduction 16  
     Diversity 16  
     Change 18  
     Strategic cultures 19  
     The intellectual context of military history 20  
     War-winning factors 23  
     The causes of war 26  
     Cultural assumptions 28  
     The naval dimension 37  
     Conclusion 38  
     Notes 38  
  Chapter 2 The sound of guns: military history today 41  
     The world of print 42  
     Problems with the sources 45  
     Weapons and battlefields 48  
     Television and film 49  
     Face of battle 50  
     Biography 52  
     The popular market 53  
     Memoirs and oral history 57  
     War and society 64  
     Cultural dimensions 70  
     Conclusion 73  
     Notes 74  
  Chapter 3 Redressing Eurocentricism 81  
     The case of cavalry 83  
     Governmental effectiveness 86  
     The clash of civilizations? The case of Islam 87  
     Dating Western success 98  
     Firearms and native allies 99  
     Sources and topics for study 100  
     The Orient 103  
     South Asia 105  
     Ottoman warfare 106  
     Africa 107  
     Brazil 108  
     Recovering non-Western warfare 108  
     Primitivizing the Middle Ages 109  
     Revising Western military history 111  
     Non-Western perspectives 112  
     Conclusions 113  
     Notes 114  
  Chapter 4 Qualifying technology 119  
     Non-military technology 126  
     The reporting of war 127  
     Technology, adaptation and tasking 129  
     The process of change 131  
     The perception of change 132  
     Technology, organization and the pursuit of victory 134  
     Asymmetrical warfare 137  
     Conclusions 138  
     Notes 139  
  Chapter 5 Setting military objectives 143  
     German war-making, 1866–1945 146  
     Civil wars 147  
     Changes in tasking 148  
     Tasking and organization 149  
     Tasking and strategic culture 152  
     Tasking and military history 154  
     The USA and Europe today: different strategic cultures, clashing tasks? 155  
     Conclusion 164  
     Notes 164  
  Chapter 6 1500–1815 166  
     A demographically reconceptualized world 170  
     Defining the issues 171  
     Naval developments 174  
     Key geopolitical changes 175  
     Multiple capability and eliciting support 176  
     Success and failure 179  
     The case study of India 181  
     Assessing effectiveness 183  
     Notes 185  
  Chapter 7 1775–1918 189  
     Creating the past 191  
     Chronological boundaries 192  
     Which narrative? 194  
     The study of war 199  
     The market for military history 203  
     Commemorating war and learning lessons 205  
     Japan 208  
     History and policy 209  
     World War One 210  
     Notes 213  
  Chapter 8 1914–today 216  
     The lessons of World War One 218  
     Reviewing World War Two 222  
     Military history and politics 234  
     The shrinking of distance 240  
     Conclusions 242  
     Notes 242  
  Chapter 9 Conclusions 247  
     Selected bibliography 260  
  Index 262  
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