Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War
Bill Kissan
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Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential catalyst for major international conflict. And since 1945 the number of civil wars in the world has grown steadily, bringing devastation on a scale more traditionally associated with international wars. In spite of this, there is no classic treatise on civil war to compare with the classic works we have on war, revolution, or peace. On the one hand, historians have tended to treat the 'big' civil wars such as the American and the Spanish in isolation. On the other, ... Read more
Civil war has been a recurring feature of human societies throughout history - and an essential catalyst for major international conflict. And since 1945 the number of civil wars in the world has grown steadily, bringing devastation on a scale more traditionally associated with international wars. In spite of this, there is no classic treatise on civil war to compare with the classic works we have on war, revolution, or peace. On the one hand, historians have tended to treat the 'big' civil wars such as the American and the Spanish in isolation. On the other, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199602872
SKU
V9780199602872
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99-20
About Bill Kissan
A political scientist and historian, Bill Kissane is a Reader in Politics at the London School of Economics, where he is a member of the Conflict Research Group. He is the author of several books on civil-war related subjects, including a pioneering study of the Irish civil war, The Politics of the Irish Civil War (2005), also published by Oxford ... Read more
Reviews for Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War
excellent ... a full and fitting culmination of insight ... a valuable introductory text
Jonathan Zartman, H Net Reviews: H War
A retrospective global study of the concept of 'Civil War' is a challenge in more ways than one. In refining an old historical concept and applying it to recent conflicts, Bill Kissane rises impressively to the ... Read more
Jonathan Zartman, H Net Reviews: H War
A retrospective global study of the concept of 'Civil War' is a challenge in more ways than one. In refining an old historical concept and applying it to recent conflicts, Bill Kissane rises impressively to the ... Read more