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.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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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.