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01776aam a2200277 4500 001 2C177408477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211117010121 008 210325s2021 ctu 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780300256512 020 $a 0300256515 035 $a (OCoLC)1243263286 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d EZG $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a 355.02 100 1 $a Black, Jeremy, $d 1955- $e author. 245 12 $a A short history of war / $c Jeremy Black. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2021]. 300 $a 258 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars-past, present, and future-to create and reinforce a common purpose. In this engaging overview, Jeremy Black examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Black explores too the significance of warfare more broadly and the ways in which cultural understandings of conflict have lasting consequences in societies across the world. Weaponry, Black argues, has had a fundamental impact on modes of war: it created war in the air and transformed it at sea. Today, as twentieth-century weapons are challenged by drones and robotics, Black examines what the future of warfare looks like. 650 0 $a War $x History. 650 0 $a Military art and science $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211117010804.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2C177408477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search