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Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of the species until the current rise of the so-called Islamic State. Although it covers many societies throughout time, the book does not attempt to tell all stories from all places, nor does it try to narrate "important" conflicts. Instead, author Wayne E. Lee describes the emergence of military innovations and systems, examining how they were created and then how they moved or affected other societies. These innovations are central to most historical narratives, including the development of social complexity, the rise of the state, the role of the steppe horseman, the spread of gunpowder, the rise of the west, the bureaucratization of military institutions, the industrial revolution and the rise of firepower, strategic bombing and nuclear weapons, and the creation of "people's war."

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"It takes the sharp interdisciplinary mind of Wayne E. Lee to bring together so much material over such a broad span of history and make it not only intelligible but fresh and exciting to read. He has given us a truly global history of war that will serve as one of the standards in the field for years to come."--Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

"Wayne E. Lee's incisive overview of innovation in warfare convincingly shows the importance of both technology and technique in military competition. He skillfully embeds military matters in their larger social, political, and economic contexts to provide one of the very few world histories of warfare."--J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University

"Waging War ranks as the most important survey of humankind's warrior past in decades. This accessible and yet profound work is a superb act of vision and of intellectual courage."--John Lynn, University of Illinois

"Waging War is a far-reaching study of war that brilliantly probes the theme of innovation. This important work deserves wide attention."--Jeremy Black, author of
A Century of Conflict: War, 1914-2014

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A world history of how humans have warred with each other

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2015
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199797455
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199797455
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.9 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches

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I'm a professor of history at the University of North Carolina. Although I am a specialist in the military history of early modern Europe and America, I have since branched out into world and comparative military history, writing about Europeans, Mongols, Ottomans, Native Americans, and many more peoples in various contexts. My book *Waging War*, although originally conceived as a text for teaching world military history, goes much further than traditional textbooks. It contains much new research and reframes our way of examining the broad history of human conflict. Most recently, along those lines, together with three colleagues I wrote *The Other Face of Battle*, designed to remind Americans that most of the wars in our past have been fought NOT against states, or against enemies we expected, but against peoples from other cultures, fighting in ways we weren't prepared for. That unexpectedness then shaped the human experience of combat and the strategic outcomes. My *Barbarians and Brothers* is increasingly a standard in the field of early American warfare, but I always like to point out that it reaches well beyond the field's usual boundaries; it examines warfare in Ireland, Native American techniques of warfare, and of course the more usual Europeans in both England and in North America. .

I've also worked as an archaeologist in various places, including Albania, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, and Loudoun County, Virginia. That work has influenced my historical work in various unexpected ways, but continues to be mostly a labor of love (our work in Albania was published in the book Light and Shadow, winner of the 2014 Society for American Archaeology book of the year award.)

I was an officer in the U.S. army from 1987 to 1992, and served in the 1991 Gulf War. I blacksmith as a hobby, something which has also had interesting side effects on my historical work.

You can see my academic publishing list at www.unc.edu/~welee

Follow me on Twitter at @MilHist_Lee

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I'm using this to teach a class, as it is a military history course. This past summer, I read several books, but this one took the cake. There is so much detail that provides so much to readers who want to become well-versed in such a topic. I am extremely excited to get into this text with my students. Lee is an incredible writer who brings history to life. There is so much to learn about the history of conflict and its evolution; he truly is a master.

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The work of a gifted historian and scholar of war and warfare. Wayne Lee's Waging War has enlivened the debate over humanity's propensity toward making war. Scholars and those interested in how and why humans have made war over the ages will be well served by this book.

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Geoffrey Megargee
An excellent work on innovation and warfare through history.
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2015
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You will have a hard time finding a work of greater breadth and insight than this one. Undoubtedly the best work of its kind I've read.

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A very interesting survey of the way warfare has changed, starting with the domestication of the horse. A lot of insights.

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Matthew Muehlbauer
A must have for readers interested in warfare
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2015
Waging War is the best overview available of warfare over the span of human history. Chapters scrutinize how particular innovations have shaped the conduct of war, how they changed over time, as well the constraints in applying them. While many such innovations have been technological, the book examines other types as well, such as organizational and administrative. The author also considers the role culture has played in how different societies have approached warfare, and how they have reacted to change. His command of current scholarship is rich and thorough, and no other single volume better captures the variety with which humans have warred against one another.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2015
A long needed overview with incredible detail. I look forward to assigning this in my War and Society class!

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Livre est arrivé endommagé
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Livre commander pour un cours universitaire. Livraison rapide mais le livre est arrivé endommagé.

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Very good book
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Good condition and very informative book, needed it for my uni studies

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