Soldiers and civilization : how the profession of arms thought and fought the modern world into existence

Soldiers and civilization : how the profession of arms thought and fought the modern world into existence

How the profession of arms thought and fought the modern world into existence

Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2017.

ix, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

355.009 B697 2017

(OCoLC)958483970

Drawing from military history, sociology, and other disciplines, Solidiers and Civilization covers the history of the military profession in the Western world from the ancient Greeks to the present day and shows how both soldiers and their civilizations have helped mold each other over time. Reed Bonadonna goes beyond traditional insights to locate the military profession in the context of both literary and cultural history, maintaining that soldiers have made an unacknowledged contribution to the theory and practice of civilization ...-- from dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330) and index.
Contents: Introduction: history and military professionalism -- Greeks and Macedonians: poetry, philosophy, and the phalanx -- Romans: legis et legio -- Late antiquity: pagan warriors and barbaric Christians -- The Middle Ages: chivalry and Christianity -- The early modern period: the army and the state -- The eighteenth century: soldiers of the Enlightenment -- Napoleon and the nineteenth century: revolution, reaction, and expansion -- The twentieth century: a world of conflict -- Conclusion: the twenty-first century: a century of the soldier?.
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