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Author:

Armitage, David, 1965- author.

Title:

Civil wars : a history in ideas / David Armitage.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

x, 349 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Civil war--Philosophy.
Military history.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
HISTORY / World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-332) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

030745617X
9780307456175
0307271137
9780307271136

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958205115

LCCN:

2016023404

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)