This timely book offers a history of insurgencies and counterinsurgency beyond a traditional Western-centric narrative. Black probes the linkages between beliefs, events, and people, as well as changes over time. He shows the extent to which politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views.
This timely book offers a history of insurgencies and counterinsurgency beyond a traditional Western-centric narrative. Black probes the linkages between beliefs, events, and people, as well as changes over time. He shows the extent to which politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views.
Jeremy Black is a pre-eminent military historian, thinker and strategist. His publications include The French and Napoleonic Wars, A History of Artillery, Importance of Being Poirot; The World of James Bond; and A History of the Second World War in 100 Maps. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Exeter.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Insurgency to 1500 3 Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700 4 Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century 5 Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century 6 The Ideology of People's War Refracted, 1900-1940 7 Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60 8 The Fall of Empires, 1960-80 9 The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s 10 After the Cold War, 1990s 11 Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s 12 A World without Shape? The Situation since 2010 13 Speculations about the Future 14 Conclusions Notes Selected Further Reading Index About the Author
Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Insurgency to 1500 3 Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700 4 Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century 5 Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century 6 The Ideology of People's War Refracted, 1900-1940 7 Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60 8 The Fall of Empires, 1960-80 9 The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s 10 After the Cold War, 1990s 11 Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s 12 A World without Shape? The Situation since 2010 13 Speculations about the Future 14 Conclusions Notes Selected Further Reading Index About the Author
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