An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the
role of culture on the battlefield Ideas matter in warfare. Guns
may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used.
Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas
behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few
decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies
conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to
determine how culture informs the battlefield. Warfare and Culture
in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the
most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a
cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively
expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through
sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an
organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an
exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates
within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus
pacification. In addition to a revised and expanded introduction,
the second edition of Warfare and Culture in World History now adds
new chapters on the role of herding in shaping Mongol strategies,
Spanish military culture and its effects on the conquest of the New
World, and the blending of German and East African military
cultures among the Africans who served in the German colonial army.
This volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture,
whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could
shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield
choices.
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