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War in Human Civilization
Azar Gat
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Description for War in Human Civilization
Paperback. In this truly global study, Azar Gat sets out to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 840 pages, 55 black and white halftones, 4 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1248.
Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today - is it a declining phenomenon or simply changing its shape? In this truly global study of war and civilization, Azar Gat sets out to find definitive answers to these questions in an attempt to unravel the 'riddle of war' throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century. In the process, the book generates an astonishing wealth of original and fascinating insights on all major aspects of humankind's remarkable journey through the ages, engaging a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology and evolutionary psychology to sociology and political science. Written with remarkable verve and clarity and wholly free from jargon, it will be of interest to anyone who has ever pondered the puzzle of war.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
840
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
1270g
Number of Pages
840
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199236633
SKU
V9780199236633
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99-2
About Azar Gat
Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He has published widely in the field of military strategy and thought, including A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War, also published by Oxford University Press, and has taught and lectured at Freiburg, Oxford, Yale, Ohio State, and Georgetown universities.
Reviews for War in Human Civilization
An immensely ambitious work covering not only history but archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, demography and economics, to name but a few... its weight of learning is borne aloft by the author's enthusiasm for his subject and takes his readers with it. If only there were more scholars like this!
Michael Howard, TLS Books of the Year
There's any amount of fascinating insight to be found in this big and enormously ambitious interdisciplinary study.
The Scotsman
A book of extraordinary ambition, erudition and range... Every student of war will be obliged to engage with this remarkable piece of scholarship.
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, King's College, London
A work of extraordinary scope and formidable erudition... Gat definitively unravels the riddle of civilization and war.
Professor Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University
A towering and triumphant achievement... acute, scholarly, and wide-ranging: it is certainly one of the most important works on the subject written since 1945. Gat is at the top of his brilliant form, linking a variety of disciplines in a rich and comprehensive study of this most pertinent of issues.
Professor Richard Holmes
Michael Howard, TLS Books of the Year
There's any amount of fascinating insight to be found in this big and enormously ambitious interdisciplinary study.
The Scotsman
A book of extraordinary ambition, erudition and range... Every student of war will be obliged to engage with this remarkable piece of scholarship.
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, King's College, London
A work of extraordinary scope and formidable erudition... Gat definitively unravels the riddle of civilization and war.
Professor Robert J. Lieber, Georgetown University
A towering and triumphant achievement... acute, scholarly, and wide-ranging: it is certainly one of the most important works on the subject written since 1945. Gat is at the top of his brilliant form, linking a variety of disciplines in a rich and comprehensive study of this most pertinent of issues.
Professor Richard Holmes