Civilians and Warfare in World History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Foote, Nicola; Williams, Nadya

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary book aims to address the historical questions of what roles have civilians played in warfare and how has civilian participation changed over time?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351714570
• Artikelnr.: 49045220

Autorenporträt

Nicola Foote is Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. She is editor of The Caribbean History Reader (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Immigration and National Identities in Latin America (2014). Nadya Williams is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of West Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Blurred Boundaries and Ambiguous Divisions: Civilians and
Combat From Ancient Times to the Present, Nicola Foote and Nadya Williams
PART I: Case Studies from the Ancient and Medieval World 1. The Evolution
of Civilian Participation in Ancient Greek Warfare, Nadya Williams 2.
Ancient Warfare Beyond the Battle: Populace Ravaging and Heterosexual Rape,
Kathy L. Gaca 3. Prey or Participant? Civilian Siege Experiences During the
First Jewish Revolt, Gwyn Davies 4. Collateral Damage in Pre-Crusade
Europe, Bernard S. Bachrach 5. Civilians and Militia in Ottonian Germany:
Warfare in an Era of Small Professional Armies, David S. Bachrach 6. The
Bishop with Two Hats: Reconciling Episcopal and Military Obligations in
Causa 23 of Gratian's Decretum, Melodie H. Eichbauer PART II:
Case-Studies From the Early Modern and Modern World 7. 'They Wanted to Make
Us Into Real Soldiers': The Blurred Line Between Noncombatants and
Combatants in the Thirty Years War, Tryntje Helfferich 8. American
Non-Combatants and the British Army's Depredations During the War of
Independence, Stephen Conway 9. Two Kinds of Civilians: American Encounters
with Civilians in Kerama Retto and Ie Shima, Erik D. Carlson 10. Civilians
and Civil Wars in West Africa: The Cases of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte
D'Ivoire, George Klay Kieh Jr. 11. When the Battlefield Meets the
Playground: How to Understand the Role of Children in Contemporary Civil
Wars Using the Case Studies of El Salvador and Mozambique, Jocelyn Courtney
PART III: Conceptual and Historiographical Debates and Implications 12. The
Evolution of Warfare as Related to Transformations in Modern Definitions of
Citizenship: A Segmented Periodization of the Modern Era, Nicole Dombrowski
Risser 13. It's a Crime, But is it a Blunder? The Efficacy of Targeting
Civilians in War, Alexander B. Downes and Kathryn McNabb Cochran