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. |
Abstract |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-332) and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Armitage, David, 1965- author. Civil wars First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780385353090 |
LCCN | 2016023404 |
ISBN | 9780307271136 hardcover |
ISBN | 0307271137 hardcover |
ISBN | 9780307456175 paperback |
ISBN | 030745617X paperback |