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Introduction to global military history : 1775 to the present day /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Jeremy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Military history, Modern.
Table of Contents:
  • Assessing significance
  • Publications and experimentation
  • Tasks for assessment
  • Naval power
  • Power projection
  • The west and the rest
  • Outcomes and choices
  • The American War of Independence
  • War between the USA and Native Americans
  • Europe before the French Revolution
  • The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-99
  • The rise of Napoleon
  • Asian conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s
  • The rise of Britain
  • Napoleon
  • The War of 1812
  • The Latin American Wars of Independence
  • Europe after Napoleon
  • Developments elsewhere
  • The aims of conflict
  • The impact of technology
  • The Taiping Rebellion
  • The American Civil War
  • The wars of German unification
  • Latin America
  • Western imperialism
  • American expansion
  • Naval power
  • Non-western states
  • East Asia
  • 1789-1913 in review
  • Background
  • Opening campaign
  • Conflict within Europe
  • Warfare outside Europe
  • War at sea
  • Closing campaign
  • Post-war conflict
  • Civil war in China
  • Elsewhere outside the west
  • The British Empire in the 1930s
  • The USA
  • Naval developments
  • Air power
  • The Japanese in China, 1931-41
  • The Spanish Civil War
  • German rearmament
  • Opening campaigns, 1939-41
  • Soviet Union attacked, 1941
  • War in the Pacific, 1941-42
  • Axis attacks held, 1942
  • The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45
  • Beating Germany, 1943-4
  • D-Day, 1944
  • Defeating Germany, 1944-5
  • Defeating Japan, 1943-5
  • Air power, 1939-45
  • War and society
  • Why the axis lost
  • The late 1940s
  • The Malayan emergency
  • France in Indo-China
  • France in Algeria
  • Britain and decolonisation
  • Portugal and decolonisation
  • Elsewhere in Africa
  • The Chinese Civil War
  • The Korean War
  • The Vietnam War
  • Confrontation in Europe
  • Planning for Armageddon
  • The Afghan War
  • The Cold War at sea
  • The last stages of the Cold War
  • Border wars
  • Intervention wars
  • South Asia
  • The Middle East
  • Arab-Israeli wars
  • Rebellions
  • Coups
  • Force and the state
  • American operations
  • Somalia and Haiti
  • Chechnya
  • The former Soviet Union
  • Former Kosovo
  • Third world conflict
  • The war on terrorism
  • The revolution in military affairs
  • Attempted revolutions in military affairs
  • War in Iraq
  • War in Afghanistan
  • Expenditure
  • Africa
  • Syria
  • War and disorder
  • Technology
  • The west versus the rest
  • Fitness for purpose
  • Cultural interpretations
  • Paradigm powers.