Insurgency and counterinsurgency : a global history /

A world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Insurgency to 1500
  • Contesting religion and power, 1500-1700
  • Entering the modern? The eighteenth century
  • Insurgencies in an age of imperialism: the nineteenth century
  • The ideology of people's war refracted, 1900-40
  • Insurrections at a height, 1940-60
  • The fall of empires, 1960-80
  • The variety of goals and means, 1980s
  • After the Cold War, 1990s
  • Interventionism and its failings, 2000s
  • A world without shape? The present
  • Speculations about the future
  • Conclusions.