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Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition by Wayne E Lee; Lee L Brice; Mark Grimsley; Isabel V Hull; Adrian R Lewis; John A Lynn; Timothy Michael May; Sarah C Melville; Michelle R Moyd; David Silbey; Kenneth Swope; James B Wood is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield** Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield. __Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition__, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification. In addition to a revised and expanded introduction, the second edition of __Warfare and Culture in World History__ now adds new chapters on the role of herding in sh

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Author

Wayne E Lee; Lee L Brice; Mark Grimsley; Isabel V Hull; Adrian R Lewis; John A Lynn; Timothy Michael May; Sarah C Melville; Michelle R Moyd; David Silbey; Kenneth Swope; James B Wood

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479844265

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Military