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Civil wars : a history in ideas
- Title
- Civil wars : a history in ideas / David Armitage.
- Author
- Armitage, David, 1965-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 17-240 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 349 pages; 20 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- Call Number
- JFC 17-240
- ISBN
- 9780307271136
- 0307271137
- LCCN
- 2016023404
- OCLC
- 2016023404
- Author
- Armitage, David, 1965- author.
- Title
- Civil wars : a history in ideas / David Armitage.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Armitage, David, 1965- Civil wars First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780385353090 (DLC) 2016041142
- Research Call Number
- JFC 17-240