War in the Modern World

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6445-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

"A brilliant survey of the history of warfare" — B. H. Lidell-Hart

The landmark survey of the social, political, military, and technological aspects of modern warfare from the Renaissance to the Cold War returns to print in a new paperback edition.

"War in the Modern World marked a turning point in the historiography of war. Just as Keegan's The Face of Battle marked the transition to the socail history of the military, so Ropp's classic coincided with the first full flowering of what would later be called the 'new military history'. This is good, reliable history, told with clarity, wit, insight, and understanding. It rewards reading just as much as when the new military history was new." —
Alex Roland, from the new Introduction

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ropp, Theodore

Weitere Mitwirkende

Roland, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction to the Johns Hopkins Edition, by Alex Roland
Introduction to the Original Edition
Part I: The Age of the Great Captain
Chapter 1. Land Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age (1415-1789)
Chapter 2. Naval Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age (1417-1789)
Chapter 3. The Anglo-American Military Tradition
Chapter 4. The French Revolution and Napoleon
Part II. The Industrial Revolution and War
Chapter 5. The First Half of Nineteenth Century (1815-1853)
Chapter 6. The Wars of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1854-1871)
Chapter 7. The Years of Uneasy Peace (1871-1914)
Part III. The Age of Violence
Chapter 8. The First World War
Chapter 9. The Long Armistice (1919-1939)
Chapter 10. The Second World War
Epilogue
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ropp, Theodore
Theodore Ropp is a professor of history emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of The Development of a Modern Navy: French Naval Policy, 1871-1904 and History and War. He was awarded the 1991 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his contributions to the field of military history.

Roland, Alex
Alex Roland is chair of the History Department at Duke University and the author of Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail, Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958, and (with Richard Preston and Sydney Wise) Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society.

Theodore Ropp is a professor of history emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of The Development of a Modern Navy: French Naval Policy, 1871-1904 and History and War. He was awarded the 1991 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his contributions to the field of military history. Alex Roland is chair of the History Department at Duke University and the author of Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail, Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958, and (with Richard Preston and Sydney Wise) Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society.