Carnage and Culture

landmark battles in the rise of Western power

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Carnage and Culture

landmark battles in the rise of Western power

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... I have deliberately concentrated on those West-East fault lines that emphasize the singular lethality of Western culture at war in comparison to other traditions that grew up in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. These valid generalizations should not imply that at times there were not real differences among particular European states themselves or that Western and non-Western cultures were either monolithic or always at odds with each other. And while I discuss larger issues of government, religion, and economy, my primary aim is to explain Western military power, not the general nature and evolution of Western civilization at large.

This is not a book, then, written for academic specialists. Instead, I have tried to offer a synthesis of Western society at war for the general reader across some 2,500 years of history that concentrates on general trends, rather than an original work of primary research within a defined historical period. I have used formal scholarly citations in parentheses in the text only for the longer direct quotations—although detailed information concerning factual material is derived from primary sources and secondary books and articles discussed at the conclusion of the book.

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
492

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Carnage and culture: landmark battles in the rise of Western power
2002, Anchor
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-478) and index.

Published in
New York, USA, Sydney, Astralia, London, United Kingdom, Toronto, Canada, Auckland, New Zealand

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
904/.7
Library of Congress
D25.5 .H25 2001

Contributors

Book Designer
Paul Randall Mize
Map and Artwork
Jeffrey L. Ward
Map and Artwork
M. C. Drake

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 492 p. :
Number of pages
492

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6795457M
Internet Archive
carnageculturela00hans
ISBN 10
0385500521
LCCN
00065582
OCLC/WorldCat
45375193
Library Thing
25331
Goodreads
1786705

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