War in Human Civilization
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Book Title: War in Human Civilization
Author: Azar Gat
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (November 16, 2006)
Hardcover: 848 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199262136
ISBN-13: 978-0199262137
Book Description
In this truly global study, major military historian 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. 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.
Book Review
“War in Human Civilization is indeed the ambitious, sweeping book that the author set out to write. Both its scope and scale are impressive as is the wide range of sources and disciplines whose theories and methods are brought to bear on the ‘riddle’ of war…. The coverage and the deft weaving together of so many central theories on human behavior make this a book worth examining.” –Michael S. Neilberg, Journal of Social History
“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
About the Author
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.
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