What is military history?
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What is military history?
(What is history?)
Polity, 2013
2nd ed., rev. and updated
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-154) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780745659787
Description
This clear, readable introduction to the popular field of military history is now available in a refreshed and updated second edition. It shows that military history encompasses not just accounts of campaigns and battles but includes a wide range of perspectives on all aspects of past military organization and activity. In concise chapters it explains the fundamental features of the field, including:
The history of military history, showing how it has developed from ancient times to the present; The key ideas and concepts that shape analysis of military activity; it argues that military history is as methodologically and philosophically sophisticated as any field of history; The current controversies about which military historians argue, and why they are important; A survey of who does military history, where it is taught and published, and how it is practiced; A look at where military history is headed in the future.
The new edition of What is Military History? provides an up-to-date bibliography and cutting edge new case studies, including counterinsurgency, and as such continues to be ideal for classes in military history and in historiography generally, as well as for anyone interested in learning more about the dynamics of a rich and growing area of study.
Table of Contents
1 An Introduction to Military History 1
Military History: Defi nitions, Topics, Scope 3
Who Studies Military History and Why? 5
Overview of this Book 9
2 Military Historiography 11
Classical Roots: Military History in Ancient Times 12
Military History in the Traditional World: Histories, Manuals, and War Tales 21
Science, Nationalism, and General Staffs: Military History in the Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth Centuries 30
New Military Histories: The Transformations of the Last 50 Years 37
3 Conceptual Frameworks 45
Military History and Philosophy of History 46
Military Art and Practice 55
War and Society: Interdisciplinary Infl uences 64
Global History and Comparative Methodology 70
Conclusions 74
4 Current Controversies 75
Military Revolutions 77
Counter-Insurgency: History and Policy 86
"The West": Exceptionalism and Dominance? 89
War, Society, and Culture: Other Controversies 96
Conclusion: Revisionism and Reading the Process of History 102
5 Doing Military History 105
Forms 105
Sources 110
Programs 113
Journals, Presses, and Associations 115
6 The Future of Military History 118
Trends in the Field 119
The Politics of Military History 122
Notes 125
Further Reading 139
Index 155
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: pbk ISBN 9780745659794
Description
This clear, readable introduction to the popular field of military history is now available in a refreshed and updated second edition. It shows that military history encompasses not just accounts of campaigns and battles but includes a wide range of perspectives on all aspects of past military organization and activity. In concise chapters it explains the fundamental features of the field, including: The history of military history, showing how it has developed from ancient times to the present; The key ideas and concepts that shape analysis of military activity; it argues that military history is as methodologically and philosophically sophisticated as any field of history; The current controversies about which military historians argue, and why they are important; A survey of who does military history, where it is taught and published, and how it is practiced; A look at where military history is headed in the future. The new edition of What is Military History? provides an up-to-date bibliography and cutting edge new case studies, including counterinsurgency, and as such continues to be ideal for classes in military history and in historiography generally, as well as for anyone interested in learning more about the dynamics of a rich and growing area of study.
Table of Contents
1 An Introduction to Military History 1 Military History: Defi nitions, Topics, Scope 3 Who Studies Military History and Why? 5 Overview of this Book 9 2 Military Historiography 11 Classical Roots: Military History in Ancient Times 12 Military History in the Traditional World: Histories, Manuals, and War Tales 21 Science, Nationalism, and General Staffs: Military History in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 30 New Military Histories: The Transformations of the Last 50 Years 37 3 Conceptual Frameworks 45 Military History and Philosophy of History 46 Military Art and Practice 55 War and Society: Interdisciplinary Infl uences 64 Global History and Comparative Methodology 70 Conclusions 74 4 Current Controversies 75 Military Revolutions 77 Counter-Insurgency: History and Policy 86 "The West": Exceptionalism and Dominance? 89 War, Society, and Culture: Other Controversies 96 Conclusion: Revisionism and Reading the Process of History 102 5 Doing Military History 105 Forms 105 Sources 110 Programs 113 Journals, Presses, and Associations 115 6 The Future of Military History 118 Trends in the Field 119 The Politics of Military History 122 Notes 125 Further Reading 139 Index 155
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