Carnage and culture: landmark battles in the rise of Western power
Through depictions of historic battles, the author exposes the connection between the West's superiority on the battlefield and its rise to world dominance, including controversial arguments ignited by the recent words of various historians.
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Doubleday
2001
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| Zusammenfassung: | Through depictions of historic battles, the author exposes the connection between the West's superiority on the battlefield and its rise to world dominance, including controversial arguments ignited by the recent words of various historians. |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 492, [16] S. Ill., kt. |
| ISBN: | 0385500521 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Carnage and culture
Autor: Hanson, Victor Davis
Jahr: 2001
Contents
List of Maps • xii
Preface • xv
CHAPTER ONE
Why the West Has Won • 1
Enlightened Thugs • The Primacy of Battle • Ideas of the West •
The Western Way of War
PART ONE • CREATION
CHAPTER TWO
Freedom—or To Live as You Please • 27
Salamis, September 28, 480 b.c.
The Drowned • The Achaemenids and Freedom •
The Persian Wars and the Strategy of Salamis • The Battle •
Eleutheria ¦ The Legacy of Salamis
CHAPTER THREE
Decisive Battle • 60
Gaugamela, October 1, 331 b.c.
Angles of Vision • The Macedonian Military Machine •
Killing Spree • Decisive Battle and Western Warfare
CHAPTER FOUR
Citizen Soldiers • 99
Cannae, August 2,216 B.c.
A Summer Slaughter • Harmibal s Jaws • Carthage and the West ¦
Legions of Rome • The Idea of a Nation-in-Arms •
Rulers of the Entire World —the Legacy of Civic Militarism
viii Contents
PART TWO • CONTINUITY
CHAPTER FIVE
Landed Infantry • 135
Poitiers, October 11, 732
Horse Versus Foot • The Wall • The Hammer • Islam Ascendant •
Dark Ages? • Infantry, Property, and Citizenship • Poitiers and Beyond
CHAPTER SIX
Technology and the Wages of Reason • 170
Tenochtitlän, June 24,1520-August 13,1521
The Battles for Mexico City • Aztec War • The Mind of the Conquistadors •
Spanish Rationalism • Why Did the Castilians Win? • Reason and War
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Market—or Capitalism Kills • 233
Lepanto, October 7, 1571
Galley War • Legends of Lepanto • Europe and the Ottomans •
Capitalism, the Ottoman Economy, and Islam • War and the Market
PART THREE • CONTROL
CHAPTER EIGHT
Discipline—or Warriors Are Not Always Soldiers • 279
Rorke s Drift, January 22-23, 1879
Killing Fields • The Imperial Way •
Zulu Power and Impotence • Courage Is Not Necessarily Discipline
CHAPTER NINE
Individualism • 334
Midway, June 4-8,1942
Floating Infernos • The Annihilation of the Devastators •
The Imperial Fleet Moves Out • Western and Non-Western Japan •
Spontaneity and Individual Initiative at Midway • Individualism in Western Warfare
CHAPTER TEN
Dissent and Self-Critique • 389
Tet, January 31-April 6,1968
Battles Against the Cities • Victory as Defeat •
Aftermath • War amid Audit, Scrutiny, and Self-Critique
Contents ix
EPILOGUE
Western Warfare—Past and Future • 440
The Hellenic Legacy • Other Battles? •
The Singularity of Western Military Culture ¦ The Continuity of Western Lethality •
The West Versus the West?
GLOSSARY -457
FOR FURTHER READING • 461
INDEX • 479
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