This book's unique perspective on the roots, dynamics and shaping force of civil war will be essential to our ongoing struggles with this seemingly interminable problem. And the language of civil war has burgeoned as democratic politics has become more violently fought. Civil Wars David Armitage Published by Yale University Press, New Haven (2018) ISBN 10: 0300234244 ISBN 13: 9780300234244 New paperback Quantity: > 20 Seller: Blackwells (Oxford, OX, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description paperback. 27 David Armitage, Civil War: A History in Ideas (New York: Knopf, forthcoming).

The West's age of civil war may be over, but elsewhere it has exploded - from the Balkans to Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Sri Lanka and, most recently, Syria. Keywords: Cambridge School civil war conceptual history digital. He is also an Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School, an Affiliated Professor in the Harvard Government Department and an Honorary Professor of History at the University of Sydney. From the American Revolution to the Iraq war, pivotal decisions have hung on such shifts of perspective. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and the former chair of Harvards History Department. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war 'civil' often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor or vanquished, sufferer or outsider it can also shape a conflict's outcome, determining whether external powers are involved or stand aside. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. 12David Armitage, Every Great Revolution is a Civil War,inKeith Michael Bakerand Dan Edelstein, eds.,Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to theComparativeStudyofRevolutions(PaloAlto,CA,2015),5768. A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world We think we know civil war when we see it. Request PDF On Dec 9, 2018, Shruti Kapila published David Armitage, Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017) Find, read and cite all the research you need.

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