Details

Subject(s)

• Military history—Encyclopedias [Browse]

Distributor

• Credo Reference (Firm) [Browse]

Editor

• Davis, Paul K., 1952- [Browse]

Series

Gale eBooks

Summary note

This authoritative, well-organized, clearly written volume will prove invaluable for a variety of readers, including high school students, military historians, members of the armed forces, history buffs, and hobbyists, and will be a useful resource for both university and public library reference collections.

Notes

Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1996.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on title page of print version.

Contents

• List of maps
• Preface
• List of contributors
• Section one. Entries: Part 1. The ancient world; Part 2. The classical world; Part 3. The dark and middle ages; Part 4. The renaissance and the age of exploration; Part 5. The age of revolutions and Napoleon; Part 6. The age of empires; Part 7. The 20th-21st centuries; Section two. Readings
• Section three. Historical time line of entries
• Section four. Bibliography.

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Other format(s)

Also available in print version.

ISBN

• 1-78684-233-5
• 1-68217-101-9

OCLC

971498779

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