Title Details: | |
War and Politics |
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Authors: |
Margaritis, Georgios |
Reviewer: |
Irakleidis, Alexios |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > MILITARY HISTORY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > POLITICAL SCIENCES |
Keywords: |
War
State Politics |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
The textbook is addressed to undergraduate and postgraduate students of political science, history or military history (war studies). It is also aimed at a wider audience who would like to gain a general knowledge of the topics covered. It traces and analyses the longitudinal relationship between the phenomenon of war and the particular form and function of political power. The analysis is based on a comparative approach to this relationship in specific historical periods (Bronze Age empires, Homer, classical Greece, Rome, ... to the total wars of the 19th and 20th centuries and the low-intensity "self-fueled" wars of the modern era). The techniques of war - the material - economic substrate that accompanies them, the social norms associated with each type of war and, finally, the aggregation of all these factors and their expression at the level of political power are presented in detail. A longitudinal - historical - approach to the issue establishes possibilities for a comparative approach and reveals constants in the political constitution of societies. In this way, complex concepts such as the relationship between the right/obligation to participate in war and political participation become easier to understand. In any case, the major milestones in the history of the war/politics relationship are emphasised: the column of soldiers, the Roman legion, feudal privilege, the French Revolution, total wars, etc.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Kioseoglou, Nerina |
Graphic Editors: |
Retsis, Christos |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-960-603-438-1 |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-591 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4305 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Margaritis, G. (2015). War and Politics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-591 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Introduction. Politics and war 2. War in the Bronze Age (3rd-1st millennium BC) 3. The revolution of the hoplites (7th-5th century BC) 4. From the Roman Legion to the Middle Ages (3rd century BC–7th century AD) 5. Those who fight. The rise and fall of feudal warfare (7th-14th centuries) 6. Renaissance. The powerful kings (15th-16th centuries) 7. The Old Regime (17th-18th centuries) 8. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815) 9. Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) 10. From the Restoration to colonization (1815-1913) 11. The world wars (1914-1945) 12. From the Cold War to the wars of today |
Number of pages |
264 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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