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- This book's unique perspective on the roots and dynamics of civil war, and on its shaping force in our conflict-ridden world, will be essential to the ongoing effort to grapple with this seemingly interminable problem.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/33840515-civil-warsCivil Wars: A History in Ideas by David Armitage | Goodreads
Jan 1, 2019 · David Armitage's new book Civil wars invites us on a structured romp through a historian's playground of ideas. In three parts, he takes us from the Roman genesis of civil war as a phenomenon and phrase, through a dizzying span of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century wars and revolutions in Europe, and into a surprising, legally grounded ...
- Zoe Marks
- 2019
This book presents a convincing set of arguments regarding the evolution of the concept of civil war from the Roman republic through the Second Gulf War. It provides plenty of concepts to be considered when evaluating conflicts, and the implications of their naming as ‘civil’ wars.
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- Hardcover
Paul Taunton, 'What We Learned from David Armitage's Civil Wars, the Most Destructive Form of Human Violence,' National Post (10 February 2017): http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/what-we-learned-from-david-armit...
- David Armitage
- 2017
Feb 7, 2017 · Calling a conflict a civil war can shape its outcome by determining whether outside powers choose to get involved or stand aside: from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, pivotal...
- David Armitage
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017
- 038535309X, 9780385353090
- Civil Wars: A History in Ideas
Jan 11, 1996 · Glenna Matthews underscores the important war-catalysing role played by extraordinary public women, who proved that neither side of the Mason-Dixon line was as patriarchal as is thought. David Blight reveals an African-American world that “knew what time it was,” and welcomed war.
For scholars of political violence and civil war, Armitage forces our attention back to foundational assumptions of a key concept. David Armitage's new book Civil Wars invites us on a structured romp through a historian's playground of ideas.
Jun 23, 2010 · The author, who has been exploring battlefields for 50 years, describes the celebrated battles - including Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby - together with the major political events which characterized one of the most turbulent periods in English History.
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