Introduction -- Insurgency to 1500 -- Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700 -- Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century -- Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century -- The Ideology of People's War Refracted, 1900-40 -- Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60 -- The Fall of Empires, 1960-80 -- The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s -- After the Cold War, 1990s -- Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s -- A World without Shape? The Present -- Speculations about the Future -- Conclusions.
Summary:
"A world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, reaching back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war within states."--Provided by publisher.
