| Description |
xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Insurgency to 1500 -- Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700 -- Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century -- Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century -- The Ideology of People's War Refracted, 1900-40 -- Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60 -- The Fall of Empires, 1960-80 -- The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s -- After the Cold War, 1990s -- Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s -- A World without Shape? The Present -- Speculations about the Future -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
"A world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states."--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Insurgency -- History.
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Counterinsurgency -- History.
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Counterinsurgency. (OCoLC)fst00881325
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Insurgency. (OCoLC)fst00975461
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781442256316 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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1442256311 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9781442256323 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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144225632X |
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9781442256323 |
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