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Title Details:
Civil wars in modern world
Authors: Margaritis, Georgios
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > BATTLES
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > GENERAL HISTORY, THEORY > REVOLUTIONS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > HISTORY OF COUNTRIES > GREEK HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > MILITARY HISTORY
Keywords:
Civil wars
History of warfare
American civil war
Russian civil war
Spanish civil war
Greek civil war
Warfare in modern age
Modern political history
Description:
Abstract:
This textbook deals with the phenomenon of civil wars in the modern era. These are conflicts, and wars, which do not pit society against an external enemy but which, on the contrary, unfold within it, turning one part of it against another. Civil wars are not a phenomenon of our time. In all historical periods, we can see traces of conflicts to which we could fearlessly attribute the term. In ancient times, civil wars were a special field of political reflection, both in the Greek and Roman worlds. But in the modern era, from the dawn of the 19th century to our days, the phenomenon has acquired special characteristics as complex as our era itself. Economic interests, class struggle and social injustices, conflicts within the ruling elites, generate this type of conflict. Ideologies, religions, and pragmatic or metaphysical visions come to "dress up" these oppositions and become the banners of the war between them. This manual proposes the study of the civil wars of the modern era with a comparative approach, examining the common characteristics of the major differences of the most "classic" wars of the genre: the American (1861-1865), the Russian (1918-1922), the Spanish (1936-1939) and "ours", the Greek (1946-1949). Through this comparative overview, we can first understand and understand the characteristics of civil wars, the circumstances in which they arise, their weight in national and world history, what they destroy and what they create. Though it is not possible to exhaust, in the context of an educational textbook, such a complex phenomenon, we assume that through the reading and study of the present, the reader will have the first orientation for a subsequent deeper acquaintance with a phenomenon that is much discussed in our own time.
Linguistic Editors: Iordanidou, Dossy
Graphic Editors: Papaioannou, Angeliki
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 27-09-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-107-9
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-341
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10750
Bibliographic Reference: Margaritis, G. (2023). Civil wars in modern world [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-341
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Civil wars: terminology, description, demarcation issues
2. Civil wars in the present day
3. The "classic" civil wars: a comparative overview
4. The civil war of the nineteenth century – the American Civil War (1861-1865)
5. The Russian Civil War – 1918 – 1922
6. An "International" Civil War - The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
7. On the Greek Civil War: economic, social and political roots
8. The road to civil war
9. The first phase of the Civil War
10. Total war
11. The last year of the war
12. The general characteristics of civil wars - A classification attempt
Number of pages 278
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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