Unconventional warfare from antiquity to the present day. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Brian Hughes & Fergus Robson.
• Editors: Hughes, Brian; Robson, Fergus
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Guerrillas and Counterinsurgency in History; Brian Hughes and Fergus Robson -- Part I: Insurgents, Counter-Insurgency, and Civilians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 2: Gender and 'Population-centric' Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan; Julia Welland -- Chapter 3: 'The Best Fellagha Hunter is the French of North African Descent': Harkis in French Algeria; Raphaëlle Branche -- Chapter 4: 'Black-and-Tan tendencies': policing insurgency in the Palestine Mandate, 1922-48; Seán William Gannon -- Chapter 5: 'The Entire Population of this God-forsaken Island is Terrorised by a Small Band of Gun-men': Guerrillas and Civilians during the Irish Revolution; Brian Hughes -- Chapter 6: American Civil War Guerrillas; Daniel E. Sutherland -- Part II: Small War from the Early Modern World to Antiquity -- Chapter 7: Insurgent Identities, Destructive Discourses, and Militarized Massacre: French Armies on the Warpath Against Insurgents in the Vendée, Italy, and Egypt; Fergus Robson -- Chapter 8: Lords of the Forests in Flanders: Small War by Freebooters and the Dutch Contributions System in Flanders, 1584-1592; Tim Piceu -- Chapter 9:'A Great Company of Country Clowns': Guerrilla Warfare in the East Anglian and Western Rebellions (1549); Alexander Hodgkins -- Chapter 10: Good King Robert's Testament?: Guerrilla Warfare in Later Medieval Scotland; Alastair J. Macdonald -- Chapter 11: Guerrilla Warfare and Revolt in 2nd Century BC Egypt; Brian McGing -- Chapter 12: Unorthodox Warfare? Variety and Change in Archaic Greek Warfare (ca. 700- ca. 480 B.C.E.); Matthew Lloyd.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 355.0218; Irregular warfare; Irregular warfare -- History; HISTORY / Military / Other; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science; Irregular warfare; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319495262; 3319495267
• Related ISBNs: 9783319495255; 3319495259
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2017).
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