War And the Modern World

Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of machine' and 'the age of management'. They explore how industrialization and nationalism fostered vast armies whilst the emergence of mobile warfare and improved communications systems made possible the 'total warfare' of the two World Wars. With military conflict regionalized after 1945 they show how guerrilla and asymmetrical warfare highlighted the limits of the machine and mass as well as the importance of the media in winning 'hearts and minds'. This is a comprehensive guide to every facet of modern war from strategy and operations to its social, cultural, technological and political contexts and legacies.

Introduction
The Industrialization of Warfare, 1850-1914
The wars of mid century
War, technology and industrial change, 1850-1914
War and imperial expansion
The non-western world responds to imperialism, 1850-1914
War, society, and culture, 1850-1914: the rise of militarism
War-making and restraint by law: the formative years, 1864-1914
The arms race: qualitative and quantitative aspects
The Era of Total War, 1914-45
World War I
Military captivity in two world wars: legal frameworks and camp regimes
Military occupations, 1914-45
Homefronts: the mobilization of resources for total war
The search for peace in the interwar period
Commemorating war, 1914-45
Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era
The military and the revolutionary state
World War II
Post-Total Warfare, 1945-2005
Military occupations, 1945-55
The wars after the War, 1945-54
Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages
Conventional war, 1945-90
Wars of decolonization, 1945-75
War and memory since 1945
The era of American hegemony, 1989-2005
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