Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition
Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefieldIdeas matter in warfare. Traditionally,…
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Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition
An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefieldIdeas matter in warfare. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield.Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used.
Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis.