Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest – serie
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Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare
Inbunden, 2002
1603 kr
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This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars.Read how warfare evolved during the centuries in ancient Greece from …
United States Army, A Historical Dictionary
Inbunden, 2002
1893 kr
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Newell, himself with nearly three decades of service to the U.S. Army, provides readers with a brief introduction to the people and events that have made the U.S. Army the strongest military force in the world.The volume profiles the leaders and the accomplishments of the U.S. Army from the …
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Warfare
Inbunden, 2003
1313 kr
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This Dictionary covers the period from the emergence of the Egyptian state around 3000 BC to the Arab conquest in the mid-7th century AD. The book is divided into three main sections. An introductory section includes a chronology of Egypt, with all known military actions, and an essay highlighting …
Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and Disarmament
Av Jeffrey A. Larsen, James M. Smith
Inbunden, 2005
1838 kr
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Historical Dictionary of Arms Control and Disarmament provides a historical review of key themes and issues in international security and arms control, focusing on efforts in the 20th century to control the spread and use of armaments and to prevent war. This book summarizes the rich and proud …
Historical Dictionary of World War II
The War against Germany and Italy
Inbunden, 2013
2183 kr
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This dictionary covers the complex and costly conflict that began when Germany, ruled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, invaded neighboring Poland on 1 September 1939; and concluded when Germany surrendered on 7–9 May 1945, leaving much of the European continent in ruins and its population …
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War
Av Francisco J. Romero Salvadó
Inbunden, 2013
2183 kr
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The tragedy that devastated Spain for 33 months from July 1936 to April 1939, was, first and foremost, a brutal fratricidal conflict, the product of the fatal clash between diametrically opposed views of Spain and an attempt to settle crucial issues which had divided Spaniards for generations: …
Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars
Av John Laband
E-bok, 2009
1839 kr
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Between 1838 and 1888 the recently formed Zulu kingdom in southeastern Africa was directly challenged by the incursion of Boer pioneers aggressively seeking new lands on which to set up their independent republics, by English-speaking traders and hunters establishing their neighboring colony, and …
Historical Dictionary of Terrorism
Av Sean K. Anderson, Stephen Sloan
E-bok, 2009
2193 kr
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The United States Department of Defense defines terrorism as "the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological." …
Historical Dictionary of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare
Av Benjamin C. Garrett, John Mason Hart
E-bok, 2007
1297 kr
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Human experience with nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare has been limited, especially in comparison to conventional forms of warfare. Our experience with nuclear warfare is confined to a period of less than one week during the end of World War II, when the United States successfully …
Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812
E-bok, 2006
2511 kr
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The War of 1812 was an extremely complicated war motivated by British seizures of American vessels and goods, American desire to expand into Canada, and impressment of American sailors into the British Navy. However, these are merely the immediate causes. To fully understand the War of 1812, one …
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare
E-bok, 2002
1766 kr
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This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how warfare evolved during the centuries in ancient Greece from …
Historical Dictionary of the Crimean War
Av Guy Arnold
E-bok, 2002
1204 kr
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For a relatively short war, the Crimean War holds an important place in history. Finally, a resource that provides a historical overview of the war from a number of different angles including, the causes, the motivations, the course, and the consequences. This volume fully explores the: o Main …
Historical Dictionary of the Korean War
Inbunden, 2010
2328 kr
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The Korean War has often been regarded as a forgotten war, although that is certainly unfair. It was, if anything, a rather crucial war within the ambit of the Cold War, started by North Korea in 1950 and, although the bulk of the fighting was over by 1954, peace has never been concluded and the …
Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam
Inbunden, 2011
1893 kr
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For Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War altered forever the history, topography, people, economy, and politics of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), Cambodia, and Laos. That the war was controversial is an understatement as is the notion that the war can be …
Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy
Av James M. Morris, Patricia M. Kearns
Inbunden, 2011
2260 kr
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The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe. The story of the Navy from its birth through the Civil War and …
Historical Dictionary of the Korean War
E-bok, 2010
2568 kr
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The Korean War has often been regarded as a forgotten war, although that is certainly unfair. It was, if anything, a rather crucial war within the ambit of the Cold War, started by North Korea in 1950 and, although the bulk of the fighting was over by 1954, peace has never been concluded and the …
Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy
Av James M. Morris, Patricia M. Kearns
E-bok, 2011
2568 kr
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The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with responsibilities that span the globe. The story of the Navy from its birth through the Civil War and …
Historical Dictionary of the Crusades
Inbunden, 2013
1893 kr
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The crusades were among the longest and most bitter wars in human history and consisted of no less than seven major expeditions from Western Europe from the late 11th to the early 14th centuries for the purpose of wresting Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the control of the Muslims. In the end, it …
Historical Dictionary of the Crusades
E-bok, 2013
2026 kr
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The crusades were among the longest and most bitter wars in human history and consisted of no less than seven major expeditions from Western Europe from the late 11th to the early 14th centuries for the purpose of wresting Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the control of the Muslims. In the end, it …
Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War
Av Christopher R. Lew, Edwin Pak-wah Leung
Inbunden, 2013
1893 kr
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The Chinese Civil War, which lasted several years or several decades, depending on how you define it, was one of the most momentous wars of the 20th century for it determined the fate of the world’s most populous country, and was bitterly fought with millions of combatants involved and hundreds of …
Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War
Av Christopher R. Lew, Edwin Pak-wah Leung
E-bok, 2013
2087 kr
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The Chinese Civil War, which lasted several years or several decades, depending on how you define it, was one of the most momentous wars of the 20th century for it determined the fate of the world’s most populous country, and was bitterly fought with millions of combatants involved and hundreds of …
Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution
Inbunden, 2015
1893 kr
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The French Revolution remains the most examined event, or period, in world history. It was, most historians would argue, the first “modern” revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution, from “restoration,” as in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in …
Historical Dictionary of World War II
The War Against Germany and Italy
E-bok, 2013
2407 kr
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This dictionary covers the complex and costly conflict that began when Germany, ruled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, invaded neighboring Poland on 1 September 1939; and concluded when Germany surrendered on 7–9 May 1945, leaving much of the European continent in ruins and its population …
Historical Dictionary of the Civil War
2 Volumes
E-bok, 2011
3785 kr
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The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later. This updated and expanded …
Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam
E-bok, 2011
2087 kr
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For Southeast Asia, the Vietnam War altered forever the history, topography, people, economy, and politics of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), Cambodia, and Laos. That the war was controversial is an understatement as is the notion that the war can be …
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War
Av Francisco J. Romero Salvadó
E-bok, 2013
2407 kr
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The tragedy that devastated Spain for 33 months from July 1936 to April 1939, was, first and foremost, a brutal fratricidal conflict, the product of the fatal clash between diametrically opposed views of Spain and an attempt to settle crucial issues which had divided Spaniards for generations: …
Historical Dictionary of the Chechen Conflict
Av Ali Askerov
Inbunden, 2015
1603 kr
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Since the escalation of the war in the North Caucasus in the eighteenth century, the political map of the world has changed repeatedly and dramatically, and many major wars and bloody revolutions ripped through the world. But the nature of the struggle between Russia and Chechnya is still the same. …
Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Inbunden, 2015
2183 kr
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Competing Jewish and Arab national claims over the Holy Land form the core of the Arab–Israeli conflict, thereby transforming it into the most intensely-fought struggles in the history of humanity. The conflict evokes unparalleled passion and hostility not only among its immediate participants and …
Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Av Guo Jian, Yongyi Song m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2183 kr
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As the world’s only English-language historical dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), this book offers a comprehensive coverage of major historical figures, events, political terms, and other matters relevant to this unique period of modern Chinese history that had profound …
Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926
2 Volumes
Inbunden, 2015
3958 kr
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This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world’s first Communist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist …
