Carl Cavanagh Hodge

War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792-1914

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between political purpose and strategy on the one hand, and the challenge of realizing strategic goals through military operations on the other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781848936133
• ISBN-10: 1848936133
• Artikelnr.: 47125969

Autorenporträt

Carl Cavanagh Hodge is a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. He is a former Senior Volkswagen Research Fellow with the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies at the Johns Hopkins University and a former NATO-EAPC fellow. He is the author or editor of nine books and numerous articles on European and American politics and history. His titles include The Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (Greenwood, 2008); U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy, From 1789 to the Present (ABC-Clio, 2007); Atlanticism for a New Century: The Rise, Triumph and Decline of NATO (Prentice-Hall, 2004); The Trammels of Tradition: Social Democracy in Britain, France, and Germany (Greenwood,1994).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Conceptual Prologue
1. Napoleonic Warfare
2. Far-Distant Aggression: Anglo-French Expeditionary Warfare
3. Second Republic, Second Reich: American and Prussian Wars of National
Unity
4. America, Japan and the New Navalism
5. Militarism and the Modern State, 1890-1914
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Index