Civil wars a history in ideas
"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.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2017
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.
