| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 349 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
"A highly original history, tracing civil war, the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression, from Ancient Rome through the centuries to present day"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction : confronting civil war -- Part I: Roads from Rome -- Inventing civil war : the Roman tradition -- Remembering civil war : Roman visions -- Part II: Early modern crossroads -- Uncivil civil wars : the seventeenth century -- Civil war in an age of revolutions : the eighteenth century -- Partt III: Paths to the present -- Civilizing civil war : the nineteenth century -- Worlds of civil war : the twentieth century -- Conclusion : civil wars of words. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [249]-332) and index. |
| Subject |
Civil war -- Philosophy.
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Military history.
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PHILOSOPHY / Political.
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HISTORY / World.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Armitage, David, 1965- author. Civil wars First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780385353090 (DLC) 2016041142 |
| ISBN |
9780307271136 (hardback) |
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0307271137 (hardback) |
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9780307456175 (paperback) |
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030745617X (paperback) |
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