| Contents |
Insurgency to 1500 -- Contesting religion and power, 1500-1700 -- Entering the modern? The eighteenth century -- Insurgencies in an age of imperialism: the nineteenth century -- The ideology of people's war refracted, 1900-40 -- Insurrections at a height, 1940-60 -- The fall of empires, 1960-80 -- The variety of goals and means, 1980s -- After the Cold War, 1990s -- Interventionism and its failings, 2000s -- A world without shape? The present -- Speculations about the future -- Conclusions. |
| Abstract |
"A world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Black, Jeremy, 1955- author. Insurgency and counterinsurgency. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781442256330 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016014744 |
| ISBN | 9781442256316 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1442256311 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 144225632X |
| ISBN | 9781442256323 |
