This book's unique perspective on the roots, dynamics and shaping force of civil war will be essential to our ongoing struggles with this seemingly interminable problem. And the language of civil war has burgeoned as democratic politics has become more violently fought. This is true of many conflicts: from the American Revolution (commonly referred to as a civil war as it was waged) to the U.S. In Civil Wars, eminent historian David Armitage offers invaluable illumination. 12David Armitage, Every Great Revolution is a Civil War,inKeith Michael Bakerand Dan Edelstein, eds.,Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to theComparativeStudyofRevolutions(PaloAlto,CA,2015),5768. In each, pivotal decisions by outside powers turned on precisely such shifts of perspective. The West?s age of civil war may be over, but elsewhere it has exploded ? from the Balkans to Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Sri Lanka and, most recently, Syria. This is true of many conflicts: from the American Revolution (commonly referred to as a civil war as it was waged) to the U.S. From the American Revolution to the Iraq war, pivotal decisions have hung on such shifts of perspective. Civil Wars: A History in Ideas David Armitage David Armitage Lloyd C. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor or vanquished, sufferer or outsider it can also shape a conflict?s outcome, determining whether external powers are involved or stand aside. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Civil wars attract much less attention than international wars but they are.
A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. We found 2 book recommendations similar to Civil War.
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