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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World
Hardback
Main Details
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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Anne Curry
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By (author) David A. Graff
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| Series | Cambridge History of War |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:762 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 162 |
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| Category/Genre | World history
Military history |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521877152
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| Classifications | Dewey:355.00902 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises; 16 Maps; 17 Halftones, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
1 October 2020 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies - including gunpowder and the earliest firearms - by land and sea.
Author Biography
Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton and a former editor of the Journal of Medieval History. She is an expert on the Hundred Years War, especially the battle of Agincourt, and has pioneered new approaches to the study of armies using financial records, creating online databases of soldiers which have generated much popular as well as academic interest. David A. Graff is Pickett Professor of Military History and Director of the Graduate Program in Security Studies at Kansas State University. An expert on China's military tradition, he is best known for his path-breaking book Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 (2002). He is a founder of the Chinese Military History Society and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Military History.
Reviews'... accessible for both specialists and general readers. Recommended. ' F. Krome, Choice '... an excellent volume ... The essays ... provide extensive references that make them good starting points for further reading for interested historians who are non-specialists, especially graduate students and teachers; the select bibliography is also useful in this regard.' Bradley Phillis, Journal of Chinese Military History
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