Jeremy Black

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency (eBook, PDF)

A Global History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states. Interweaving thematic and chronological narratives, Black probes the enduring linkages between beliefs, events, and people on the one hand and changes over time on the other hand. He shows the extent to which power politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views. Tracing insurgencies ranging from China to Africa to Latin America, Black highlights the widely differing military and political dimensions of each conflict. He weighs how, and why, lessons were "learned" or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons learned by contemporaries, the ways in which norms developed within militaries and societies, and their impact on doctrine and policy. His sweeping study of insurrectionary warfare and its counterinsurgency counterpart will be essential reading for all students of military history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765173237
• Artikelnr.: 74397612

Autorenporträt

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 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Insurgency to 1500
Chapter 3: Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700 Chapter 4: Entering the
Modern? The Eighteenth Century Chapter 5: Insurgencies in an Age of
Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century Chapter 6: The Ideology of People's War
Refracted, 1900-40 Chapter 7: Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60 Chapter 8:
The Fall of Empires, 1960-80 Chapter 9: The Variety of Goals and Means,
1980s Chapter 10: After the Cold War, 1990s Chapter 11: Interventionism and
Its Failings, 2000s Chapter 12: A World without Shape? The Present Chapter
13: Speculations about the Future Chapter 14: Conclusions Notes Selected
Further Reading Index