Civil wars a history in ideas

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe down to the present day. Defining the term is an acutely political act: whether a war is "...

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Main Author: Armitage, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Alfred A. Knopf 2017.
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