War In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745655260

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War in the Nineteenth Century by Jeremy Black Pdf

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are included, as are social and cultural dimensions of military activity. Leading military historian Jeremy Black offers the reader a twenty-first century approach to this period, particularly through his focus on the dynamic drive provided by different forms of military goals, or "tasking". This allows echoes with modern warfare to come to the fore and provides a fuller understanding of a period sometimes considered solely as background to the total war of 1914-45. Alongside state-to-state warfare and the move toward "total war", Black's emphasis on different military goals gives due weight to trans-oceanic conflict at the expense of non-Europeans. Irregular, internal and asymmetric war are all considered, ranging from local insurgencies to imperial expeditions, and provide a deliberate shift from Western-centricity. At the very cutting edge of its field, this book is a must read for all students and scholars of military history and its related disciplines.

Author : Tobie Meyer-Fong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804785594

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What Remains by Tobie Meyer-Fong Pdf

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and communities grappled with fundamental questions of loyalty and loss as they struggled to rebuild shattered cities, bury the dead, and make sense of the horrors that they had witnessed. Driven by compelling accounts of raw emotion and deep injury, What Remains opens a window to a world described by survivors themselves. This book transforms our understanding of China's 19th century and recontextualizes suffering and loss in China during the 20th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190868161

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Author : Joseph Clarke,John Horne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319782294

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Militarized Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century by Joseph Clarke,John Horne Pdf

This book explores European soldiers’ encounters with their continent’s exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War. In numerous military expeditions to Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece and the ‘Levant’ they found wild landscapes and strange societies inhabited by peoples who needed to be ‘civilized.’ Yet often they also discovered founding sites of Europe’s own ‘civilization’ (Rome, Jerusalem) or decaying reminders of ancient grandeur. The resulting encounters proved seminal in forging a military version of the ‘civilizing mission’ that shaped Europe’s image of itself as well as its relations with its own periphery during the long nineteenth century.

Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107109834

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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War by Cody Marrs Pdf

Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.

Author : Kevin Cramer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803206941

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The Thirty Years' War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century by Kevin Cramer Pdf

The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of German nationalism and the unification of Germany as a powerful nation-state. In this era the reading public?s obsession with the most destructive and divisive war in its history?the Thirty Years? War?resurrected old animosities and sparked a violent, century-long debate over the origins and aftermath of the war. The core of this bitter argument was a clash between Protestant and Catholic historians over the cultural criteria determining authentic German identity and the territorial and political form of the future German nation. ø This groundbreaking study of modern Germany?s morbid fascination with the war explores the ideological uses of history writing, commemoration, and collective remembrance to show how the passionate argument over the ?meaning? of the Thirty Years? War shaped Germans' conception of their nation. The first book in the extensive literature on German history writing to examine how modern German historians reinterpreted a specific event to define national identity and legitimate political and ideological agendas, The Thirty Years? War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century is a bold intellectual history of the confluence of history writing, religion, culture, and politics in nineteenth-century Germany.

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317352334

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A House Divided by Jonathan Daniel Wells Pdf

Consolidating one of the most complex and multi-faceted eras in American History, this new edition of Jonathan Wells’s A House Divided unifies the broad and varied scholarship on the American Civil War. Amassing a variety of research, this accessible and readable text introduces readers to both the war and the Reconstruction period, and how Americans lived during this time of great upheaval in the country's history. Designed for a variety of subjects and teaching styles, this text not only looks at the Civil War from a historical perspective, but also analyzes its ramifications on the United States and American identities through the present day. This second edition has been updated throughout, incorporating new scholarship from recent studies on the Civil War era, and includes additional photographs and maps (now incorporated throughout the text), updated bibliographies, and a supplementary companion website.

Author : Brian Holden Reid
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0060851201

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The Civil War and the Wars of the Nineteenth Century by Brian Holden Reid Pdf

The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history and a defining moment of the nineteenth century. In this concise and authoritative volume, Brian Holden Reid -- a leading expert on the subject -- reveals how industrialization and emerging methods of mass production gave birth to a new age of warfare, most dramatically represented in the unprecedented destruction and mass casualties of the American Civil War. Detailed, chronological history of the strategic and operational dimensions of both the Northern and Southern campaigns Strengths and weaknesses of the opposing sides Fresh perspectives on the war's global context Culmination of the war, peace negotiations, and their ramifications for the future

Author : Isaac Land
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077603929

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Enemies of Humanity by Isaac Land Pdf

This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the "war on terrorism" had already matured by 1870 as a way to justify often bloody campaigns against labor unions, nationalist freedom fighters, and reformers.

Author : Ian Hernon
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004187390

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Massacre and Retribution by Ian Hernon Pdf

Ian Hernon's 'forgotten wars' have been chosen from a broad range of bloody colonial conflicts - such as the mad King who was beaten in his unassailable fortress after taking hostages and the massacre of redcoats in paradise.

Author : David Gates
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 033373534X

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Warfare in the Nineteenth Century by David Gates Pdf

Warfare in the Nineteenth Century not only covers warfare as it evolved throughout the century, but also explores its connection with, and effect on, technical, social, economic, political, and cultural change. The book discusses specific battles and campaigns in order to highlight the turning points in the development of the way in which military operations were conducted. David Gates places war during the 1800's in its wider historical context in a way that is thoughtful, wide-ranging, and informed.

Author : David Crane
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000110619487

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Men of War by David Crane Pdf

NAVAL FORCES & WARFARE. Through the lives of three outstanding naval officers - each considered the most brilliant commander of his generation - David Crane offers a unique portrait of the Royal Navy at a time when it held unchallenged dominion over the world's oceans. Although all of the three died young, their careers covered virtually every war of significance in which the navy was involved during the nineteenth century. They fought against French and Americans, Russians, Turks, Egyptians, Indians and Chinese, in fleet engagements and naval bombardments, on the walls of Canton and the banks of the Mississippi, against Malay pirates and sepoy mutineers. Combining thrilling scenes of battle with acute psychological insight, Men of War provides a remarkable insight into the nature of courage, command and warfare.

Author : Oscar Browning
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0364338717

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Wars of the Century and the Development of Military Science (Classic Reprint) by Oscar Browning Pdf

Excerpt from Wars of the Century and the Development of Military Science No account of the Nineteenth Century would be complete without a narrative of its wars which are not inferior in interest to any which History records. The campaigns of Napoleon are not only replete with instruction for the military student, but are full of striking dramatic incidents, and from the marvellous personality of the principal actor in them exercise a fascination over the mind of the reader independent of his sympathies. The War of Secession in America touches us nearly both from the science and heroism displayed in it, and from the fact that the two combatants were of the same race and language, while the great War of 1870 must remain fr-r many years the classical example of every branch of the military art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sir Edward Cust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Military history, Modern
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXKNE

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Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century by Sir Edward Cust Pdf

Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1351126334

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Warfare in Europe 1815-1914 by Peter H. Wilson Pdf

"The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian and German unification divide this century in two. In the first half, armies struggled to emerge from the shadow of Napoleon amidst an era of financial retrenchment, political unrest and accelerating technological change. The mid-century wars left an equally problematic legacy, including aspects that pointed towards 'total war'. The 26 essays in this volume examine these changes from a variety of innovative and fresh perspectives."--Provided by publisher.