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Volume 4: War and the Modern World
Edited by Roger Chickering, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Dennis Showalter, Colorado College, Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2012
Print publication year:: 2012
Online ISBN:: 9781139021203
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139021203

Subjects:: American History: General Interest, British History: General Interest, Military History, History, Regional History Before 1500, Regional History after 1500, Twentieth Century Regional History
Collections:: Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - British & European History, Cambridge Histories - American History, Cambridge Histories - Asian History, Cambridge Histories - Middle East & African Studies
Series:: Cambridge History of War

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Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.

'This final volume of The Cambridge History of War poses perhaps a greater challenge to its editors than any of its predecessors, but they have met it with total success. The years it covers, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, have seen the greatest transformationin society in the history of mankind, and war has been transformed with it … It would be invidious to single out individual chapters for commendation. All are by well-chosen experts … but the real credit must go to the editors who planned the book, selected a team so uniquely well qualified to write it and provided an excellent bibliography.'

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'This is a pretty amazing book … The speed of this ambitious romp through history is sometimes breathtaking.'

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'A cultural history of war that is based on the latest scholarship and state-of-the-art conceptualization. … an outstanding collective achievement.'

Benjamin Ziemann Source: H-Soz-u-Kult

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

Illustrations
pp viii-ix

Maps
pp x-x

Notes on contributors
pp xi-xiv

Introduction to volume IV
pp 1-6

Part I - The industrialization of warfare, 1850–1914
pp 7-15

1 - A hinge in time
pp 16-44

2 - War, technology, and industrial change, 1850–1914
pp 45-68

3 - War and imperial expansion
pp 69-93

4 - The non-western world responds to imperialism, 1850–1914
pp 94-118

5 - War, society, and culture, 1850–1914
pp 119-141

6 - War-making and restraint by law
pp 142-162

7 - The arms race
pp 163-180

Part II - The Era of Total War, 1914–1945
pp 181-191

8 - World War I
pp 192-213

9 - Military captivity in two world wars
pp 214-235

10 - Military occupations, 1914–1945
pp 236-256

11 - Home fronts
pp 257-284

12 - The search for peace in the interwar period
pp 285-309

13 - Commemorating war, 1914–1945
pp 310-326

14 - Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era
pp 327-351

15 - The military and the revolutionary state
pp 352-377

16 - World War II
pp 378-410

Part III - Post-total warfare, 1945–2005
pp 411-427

17 - Military occupations, 1945–1955
pp 428-451

18 - The wars after the war, 1945–1954
pp 452-471

19 - Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages
pp 472-492

20 - Conventional war, 1945–1990
pp 493-514

21 - Wars of decolonization, 1945–1975
pp 515-541

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