Bibliograph

Civil wars, a history in ideas, David Armitage

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Civil wars, a history in ideas, David Armitage

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-332) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Civil wars

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

958205115

Responsibility statement

David Armitage

Sub title

a history in ideas

Summary

"A highly original history, tracing civil war, the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression, from Ancient Rome through the centuries to present day"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction : confronting civil war -- Part I: Roads from Rome -- Inventing civil war : the Roman tradition -- Remembering civil war : Roman visions -- Part II: Early modern crossroads -- Uncivil civil wars : the seventeenth century -- Civil war in an age of revolutions : the eighteenth century -- Partt III: Paths to the present -- Civilizing civil war : the nineteenth century -- Worlds of civil war : the twentieth century -- Conclusion : civil wars of words

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