TY - BOOK ID - 78072070 TI - A global history of war AU - Chaliand, Gérard AU - Mangin-Woods, Michele AU - Woods, David PY - 2014 SN - 0520959434 9780520959439 9781785390739 1785390732 9780520283602 9780520283619 PB - Oakland, California Boston, Massachusetts DB - UniCat KW - Strategy -- History. KW - War -- History. KW - War and civilization. KW - War. KW - Strategy KW - War KW - War and civilization KW - Military & Naval Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Military Science - General KW - Civilization and war KW - Civilization KW - History KW - Armed conflict (War) KW - Conflict, Armed (War) KW - Fighting KW - Hostilities KW - Wars KW - International relations KW - Military art and science KW - ancient history. KW - ancient mesopotamia history. KW - armed conflict. KW - china. KW - civilization. KW - combat. KW - consequences of war. KW - current world order. KW - development of war tactics. KW - diplomacy. KW - empires. KW - eurasian cultures. KW - eurasian empires. KW - evolutionary perspective. KW - execution of war. KW - fighting. KW - geopolitical. KW - global war. KW - historical. KW - history of war. KW - history. KW - impact of war. KW - international war. KW - iran. KW - men at war. KW - military culture. KW - military strategy history. KW - mongolia. KW - peace talks. KW - political. KW - retrospective. KW - turkey. KW - war worldwide. KW - war. KW - warfare. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78072070 AB - While many books examine specific wars, few study the history of war worldwide and from an evolutionary perspective. A Global History of War is one of the first works to focus not on the impact of war on civilizations, but rather on how civilizations impact the art and execution of war. World-renowned scholar Gérard Chaliand concentrates on the peoples and cultures who have determined how war is conducted and reveals the lasting historical consequences of combat, offering a unique picture of the major geopolitical and civilizational clashes that have rocked our common history and made us who we are today. Chaliand's questions provoke a new understanding of the development of armed conflict. How did the foremost non-European empires rise and fall? What critical role did the nomads of the Eurasian steppes and their descendants play? Chaliand illuminates the military cultures and martial traditions of the great Eurasian empires, including Turkey, China, Iran, and Mongolia. Based on fifteen years of research, this book provides a novel military and strategic perspective on the crises and conflicts that have shaped the current world order. ER -