Warfare and culture in world history / [edited by] Wayne Lee.
Lee, Wayne E., 1965-
2011
U27 .W345 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Warfare and culture in world history / [edited by] Wayne Lee.
ISBN 9780814752784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814752780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814752777 (alk. paper)
0814752772 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : NYU Press, 2011.
Language English
Description vii, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number U27 .W345 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.0209
Summary "It has long been acknowledged that the study of war and warfare demands careful consideration of technology, institutions, social organization, and more. But, for some, the so-called "war and society" approach increasingly included everything but explained nothing, because it all too often seemed to ignore the events on the battlefield itself. The military historians in Warfare and Culture in World History return us to the battlefield, but they do so through a deep examination of the role of culture in shaping military institutions and military choices. Collected here are some of the most provocative recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens, drawing on and aggressively expanding traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. With chapters ranging from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies to the soldiers' culture of late Republican Rome and debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification, this one volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Lee, Wayne E., 1965-
Series Warfare and culture series.
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Of bureaucrats and bandits : Confucianism and anti-rebel strategy at the end of the Ming Dynasty / Kenneth M. Swope
The battle culture of forbearance, 1660-1789 / John A. Lynn II
Success and failure in civil war armies : clues from organizational culture / Mark Grimsley
German military culture and the colonial war in Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 / Isabel V. Hull
Connecting culture and the battlefield : Britain and the empire fight the hundred days / David Silbey
The American culture of war in the age of artificial limited war / Adrian R. Lewis.

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