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A military history of Africa
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ISBN: 9798216117629 0313395691 9780313395703 0313395705 9780313395697 Year: 2013 Publisher: Santa Barbara, California

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A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day.

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Africa --- History, Military.


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Le Japon militaire
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ISBN: 9782343008011 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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Description de l'histoire militaire du Japon hors de ses frontières, une clé de la compréhension du Japon actuel. Elle s'étale sur une courte durée car elle n'a débuté qu'avec l'ouverture du pays au monde extérieur en 1868.


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Indochine : des territoires et des hommes, 1856-1956
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ISBN: 9782070142606 2070142604 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris Gallimard Musée de l'Armée

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Le processus de colonisation et de décolonisation de l'ancienne Indochine française tient presque tout entier dans un siècle, de 1856 à 1956. Les dernières avancées de l'historiographie permettent de l'appréhender dans son ensemble, pour mieux comprendre sa spécificité : l'Indochine, enjeu politique et économique mais aussi mythe littéraire, constitue un cas à part dans l'histoire de l'empire colonial français. En diversifiant les approches - militaire, politique, sociale, économique, religieuse, culturelle - et en croisant les regards d'historiens français, cambodgiens, laotiens, vietnamiens et anglo-saxons, cet ouvrage vise à en offrir l'image la plus complète. Un ensemble exceptionnel de près de 400 ouvres, objets et documents, souvent inédits - peintures, dessins et photographies, armes, uniformes et emblèmes, archives et imprimés provenant des collections du musée de l'Armée et de nombreuses institutions patrimoniales de référence -, donne à voir toutes les facettes du passé complexe de l'Indochine. Leur diversité fait écho au travail des auteurs et vient nourrir la réflexion.


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Perceiving war and the military in early Christian Gaul (ca. 400-700 A.D.)
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ISBN: 9004258051 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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The passage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages has been largely studied in the light of the thesis of a gradual transformation, which is in contradiction of the previous assumption of an abrupt break due to war and general calamity. Perceiving War and the Military reassesses this historical period of transition by an investigation of the contemporary world of thought that examines the impact and significance of a permanently increasing contact with warfare and armed violence. Her studies confirm the assumption of a gradual shift, but they most of all show that the irrevocable end of the Roman Peace was a crucial factor in the late Roman world becoming gradually “medieval”.

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Gaul --- Gaul --- History, Military. --- History


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Byzantine military organization on the Danube, 10th-12th centuries
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ISSN: 18728103 ISBN: 9004252495 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 22 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The current state of research on this contact area between Byzantium and East Central Europe during a troubled period invites a new synthesis of the most recent finds and interpretations. No such comprehensive work addressing both literary and archaeological evidence exists for the history of the Byzantine Danubian provinces in the 10th-12th c. The main purpose Alexandru Madgearu's book is to establish a chronology for the provincial organization and for the development of the Danubian frontier. First a shield against the Rus’, the province of Dristra, later called Paradunavon, became further a contact and conflict area with the Pechenegs and Cumans, turned by the end of the 11th century in a half-open space, according to the new strategy of Alexius I Comnenus.


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Europe : the struggle for supremacy, from 1453 to the present.
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ISBN: 9780465013333 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Basic Books

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Die Fremdenlegion : Kolonialismus, Söldnertum, Gewalt 1831 - 1962
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ISBN: 3657775633 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paderborn Brill | Schöningh

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Memoiren, Romane, Filme und Propagandaschriften haben den Ruf der Fremdenlegion als Sammelbecken von Kriminellen und Aussteigern, als sadistisch-militaristische Hölle oder als exotische Lebenswelt romantischer Helden verbreitet. Christian Kollers faszinierendes Buch liefert die erste auf aktuellen sozial- und kulturgeschichtlichen Zugängen basierende Beschreibung dieser Söldnertruppe. Gestützt auf Selbstzeugnisse, Archivalien und Quellen zu den politischen und medialen Diskussionen über die Legion, beschreibt er deren Rolle als Instrument des Kolonialimperialismus, ihre nationale und soziale Zusammensetzung, ihre Darstellung und Mythisierung in Politik, Medien und Kultur. Auch die Identitätspolitik der Fremdenlegion, der eigene Blick der Legionäre auf Hierarchie, Disziplin, Kameradschaft, den mysteriösen »Cafard«, Alkohol, Prostitution und Homosexualität werden eingehend behandelt. Darüber hinaus findet das Verhältnis der Legionäre zu den kolonisierten Bevölkerungen eingehend Berücksichtigung - von kriegerischen Aufeinandertreffen bis zu mehr oder weniger gewaltgeprägten sexuellen Beziehungen.


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Debating war in Chinese history
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ISBN: 9004244794 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when to wage it, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese culture, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These debates at court proceeded from specific understandings of what constituted evidence, and involved the practical concerns of policy as well as more general cultural values. The result is a decidedly messy portrait of Chinese decision making over two millenia that is neither distinctly Chinese nor entirely generic. Contributors are Parks Coble, Garret Olberding, David Pong, Kenneth Swope, Paul Van Els, David Wright, and Shu-Hui Wu.


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Perceiving war and the military in early Christian Gaul (ca. 400-700 A.D.)
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ISSN: 18784879 ISBN: 9789004256187 9004256180 Year: 2013 Volume: 22 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The battle for Manchuria and the fate of China : Siping, 1946
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ISBN: 9780253007230 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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