Civil wars : a history in ideas / David Armitage.

Publisher's description: 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.

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Main Author: Armitage, David, 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Confronting civil war
  • Inventing civil war : the Roman tradition
  • Remembering civil war : Roman visions
  • Uncivil civil wars : the seventeenth century
  • Civil war in an age of revolutions : the eighteenth century
  • Civilizing civil war : the nineteenth century
  • Worlds of civil war : the twentieth century
  • Civil wars of words.