Overview
- Addresses the issue of unconventional warfare in a range of historical periods and places, from a variety of analytic perspectives
- Provides unique insights into the practices, experiences, and discourses that have shaped unconventional warfare throughout history
- Engages with a wide range of conflicts, including the American Civil War and regional rebellion in Tudor England
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Insurgents, Counterinsurgency, and Civilians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Small War from the Early Modern World to Antiquity
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe. The use of non-uniformed and often civilian combatants, with tactics eschewing pitched battles, is the most common form of warfare throughout history and comes in many forms.
The collection works back in time beginning with the ‘Long War’ in present day Afghanistan and concluding with warfare in classical Greece. Along the way it engages with conflicts as diverse as the American Civil War and regional rebellion in Tudor England. Each case study provides unique insights into the practices, experiences, and discourses that have shaped this ubiquitous type of conflict.
Readers interested in rebellion and repression, cultural and tactical interpretations of conflict, civilian strategies in wartime, the supposed ‘western way of war’, and the ways in which participants have framed and related their actions across a variety of spheres will find much ofinterest in these pages.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Brian Hughes is NUI Research Fellow in the Humanities at An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University, Ireland and a historian of modern Ireland, specialising in civilian and grassroots experiences of conflict in revolutionary Ireland. His most recent book is Defying the IRA? Intimidation, Coercion, and Communities during the Irish Revolution (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day
Editors: Brian Hughes, Fergus Robson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49526-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49525-5Published: 14 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84180-9Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49526-2Published: 03 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 264
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Military, Ancient History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Crime and Society