@article{437565,
      recid = {437565},
      author = {Lee, Wayne E.,},
      title = {Warfare and culture in world history /},
      publisher = {NYU Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {vii, 231 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437565},
}