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Histories of War - Jeremy Black

Histories of War

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2024
Pen & Sword Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0361-0148-0 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
A global account of histories of war, from Antiquity to the present day, this thoughtful book shows how the varied modes of representation record political, cultural and social developments as well as military events. Covers all forms of discussion and commemoration from statuary to scholarship, films to novels. Important not only to those interested in the history of war but also to those concerned with culture and history in general.

This erudite volume on the theory and practice of military history will interest a wide readership including both professional historians of war and those concerned with its broader philosophical dimension. The author - a well established authority in European history - has provided an informed, rigorous analysis of a difficult topic. It will delight those who seek enlightenment of the historian's craft, military or otherwise.

Jeremy Black has been described as ‘the most prolific historical scholar of our age’. He has researched and written widely on British history, politics, including political ideas, and international relations, since the 17th and 18th century to the present, and especially on military history.  He obtained a starred First in History at Queens College, Cambridge followed by postgraduate work at St John’s and Merton Colleges, Oxford and was Professor of History at the Universities of Durham and then Exeter, and is now Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University. He is senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and at the British Foreign Policy Group. He has lectured extensively in various British Commonwealth countries, Europe and the USA. He has served as archives editor, council member of prestigious academic and research bodies like Royal Historical Society and the British Records Association and on editorial boards of numerous history journals - History Today, RUSI Journal, International Review of Military History, Media History etc. He has numerous honours including the MBE.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Barnsley
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-0361-0148-7 / 1036101487
ISBN-13 978-1-0361-0148-0 / 9781036101480
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