𝔖 Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦
📁

Twentieth-Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia

✍ Scribed by Gordon Martel

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Leaves
436
Edition
1
Category
Library
⬇  Acquire This Volume

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Drawn from the award-winning 5-volume Encyclopedia of War, this valuable, one-volume reference provides readers with essential information on the conflicts and concepts that shaped global warfare in the twentieth-century and up to the present day.

  • Provides essential coverage of twentieth-century warfare across the world
  • Incorporates entries on all major wars, conflicts and concepts in the study of warfare during the period
  • Features detailed coverage of the First and Second World Wars, along with conflicts including the Russo-Japanese War, the Greco-Turkish War, the Falklands Conflict, the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, the Gulf Wars, the War Against Terrorism, and the Somalian Civil War
  • Covers topics including chemical warfare, ethnic cleansing, psychological warfare, and women and war
  • Creates an affordable and handy personal reference for students of modern and contemporary history, professional scholars, and military history enthusiasts
  • Comprises authoritative, up-to-date content - each entry ranging from 1,000 to 6,000 words - written by the best international scholars

✦ Subjects

Конфликтология;Политическая конфликтология;Энциклопедии

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentiet
📁 Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century
✍ Timothy Stapleton 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book examines the causes, course and consequences of warfare in twentieth century Africa, a period which spanned colonial rebellions, both World Wars, and the decolonization process. Timothy Stapleton contextualizes the essential debates and controversies surrounding African conflict in the twe

Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and
📁 Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century
✍ Mark Connelly; Jo Fox; Ulf Schmidt; Stefan Goebel (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Bloomsbury Academic 🌐 English

Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda's inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence.

Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and
📁 Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century
✍ Connelly, Mark(Editor);Fox, Jo(Editor);Schmidt, Ulf(Editor);Groebel, Stefan(Edit 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Bloomsbury Academic 🌐 English

Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda's inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence.

Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and
📁 Propaganda and Conflict: War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century
✍ Mark Connelly; Jo Fox; Stefan Goebel; Ulf Schmidt (editors) 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Bloomsbury Academic 🌐 English

Propaganda has always played a key role in shaping attitudes during periods of conflict and the academic study of propaganda, commencing in earnest in 1915, has never really left us. We continue to want to understand propaganda’s inner-workings and, in doing so, to control and confine its influence.