The Boundaries of War
Local and Global Perspectives in Military History
Edited by Lee L. Brice, PhD, and Timothy M. Roberts, PhD
DOI: 10.56686/9798987336144
ABOUT THE BOOK
The expansion of trade and communication networks has been active since the fifteenth century and has had an undeniable impact on connecting military activity around the world. This fact is visible in the historical record, but has it in the last several decades transformed the historiography of military history? The Boundaries of War offers a discussion on whether the transnational turn in historical scholarship suggests that all warfare is derivative of larger global patterns, or if there are local, regional, or national ‘ways of war’ that differentiate conflict within that certain geographical space, which historians should acknowledge. The authors consider how much military historians should focus on local or idiosyncratic factors to explain their subject matter and whether they should consider global phenomena in their research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Spectrum of Local and Global Perspectives in Military History
Lee L. Brice, PhD, and Timothy M. Roberts, PhD
Part 1: Local Perspectives
Chapter 1. Nihil mitius superiore Africano (Valerius Maximus 2.7.12): Political Image and Military Discipline in the Middle Roman Republic
Rosemary L. Moore, PhD
Chapter 2. An Early Failure in Privatizing Military Supply: St. Clair’s Defeat in the Northwest Indian War
Lieutenant Colonel Michael H. Taint, USAF (Ret)
Chapter 3. Defending the Pacific Coastal Frontier: Army-Navy Cooperation in the Defense of the U.S. West Coast, 1946–47
Hal M. Friedman, PhD
Chapter 4. Local War, Natural War: The Role of Water and Waterways during the Second Bull Run Campaign
Michael Burns, PhD
Chapter 5. Gelon’s Hippeis and the Battle of Himera, 480 BCE: Origins and Developments of Cavalry Traditions in Archaic Sicily
Ryan Hom
Part 2: Global Perspectives
Chapter 6. Influences of French Counterinsurgency Warfare on the American Civil War
Timothy M. Roberts, PhD
Chapter 7. The Nineteenth-Century Traffic in Soldiers’ Bones: Europe’s Controversial Opportunity to Enrich the Earth
Alexander Belovsky
Chapter 8. Uncharted Depths: Making a Case for Naval Environmental Histories
Lisa M. Brady, PhD
Chapter 9. Military Provisioning in the Glocal Greco-Roman World
Lee L. Brice, PhD
Chapter 10. International Actors Intervening in a Local War: The Long World War I of the Eastern Mediterranean, 1911–23
James N. Tallon, PhD
Chapter 11. War and Conflict in the Middle Ages: A Global Perspective
Stephen Morillo, DPhil
Conclusion
Walter E. Kretchik, PhD
Bibliography
About the Authors