Военная история / Wars of the Americas

Издательство: ABC-CLIO
Автор: David Marley
Название: Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present
Язык: английский
Год издания: 2008
Количество страниц: 1198
ISBN: 978-1-59884-101-5
Формат: pdf (e-book)
Размер: 26 мб

Divided into 10 sections, these volumes examine 500 years of warfare, from the continent's European discovery and conquest through 2006 (the previous edition only covered through 1998, the year of its publication). Topics include intertribal warfare, European rivals, independence movements, Cold War politics, and terrorism. Each section has an introductory paragraph followed by entries covering significant dates written in lively present tense. These, combined with a plethora of facts including names, details of ships, and even the time of day an event occurred, make for amazing reading. Black-and-white maps, bland illustrations, a few grainy photographs, and sidebars are scattered throughout. The table of contents does not contain a listing of these additions, even though many of the sidebars are longer than entries. There are no textual footnotes or cross-references. Nonetheless the author has succeeded in his intention to "provide both scholarly and amateur historians with rapid access to information…."