Carnage and Culture · Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power by Hanson, Victor Davis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Carnage and Culture Picture Credits for Insert List of Maps Preface ONE - Why the West Has Won

ENLIGHTENED THUGS THE PRIMACY OF BATTLE IDEAS OF THE WEST THE WESTERN WAY OF WAR

PART ONE - Creation TWO - Freedom—or “To Live as You Please”

THE DROWNED THE ACHAEMENIDS AND FREEDOM THE PERSIAN WARS AND THE STRATEGY OF SALAMIS THE BATTLE ELEUTHERIA THE LEGACY OF SALAMIS

THREE - Decisive Battle

ANGLES OF VISION THE MACEDONIAN MILITARY MACHINE KILLING SPREE DECISIVE BATTLE AND WESTERN WARFARE

FOUR - Citizen Soldiers

A SUMMER SLAUGHTER HANNIBAL’S JAWS CARTHAGE AND THE WEST LEGIONS OF ROME THE IDEA OF A NATION-IN-ARMS “RULERS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD”— THE LEGACY OF CIVIC MILITARISM

PART TWO - Continuity FIVE - Landed Infantry

HORSE VERSUS FOOT THE WALL THE HAMMER ISLAM ASCENDANT DARK AGES? INFANTRY, PROPERTY, AND CITIZENSHIP POITIERS AND BEYOND

SIX - Technology and the Wages of Reason

THE BATTLES FOR MEXICO CITY AZTEC WAR THE MIND OF THE CONQUISTADORS SPANISH RATIONALISM WHY DID THE CASTILIANS WIN? REASON AND WAR

SEVEN - The Market—or Capitalism Kills

GALLEY WAR LEGENDS OF LEPANTO EUROPE AND THE OTTOMANS CAPITALISM, THE OTTOMAN ECONOMY, AND ISLAM WAR AND THE MARKET

PART THREE - Control EIGHT - Discipline—or Warriors Are Not Always Soldiers

KILLING FIELDS THE IMPERIAL WAY ZULU POWER AND IMPOTENCE COURAGE IS NOT NECESSARILY DISCIPLINE

NINE - Individualism

FLOATING INFERNOS THE ANNIHILATION OF THE DEVASTATORS THE IMPERIAL FLEET MOVES OUT WESTERN AND NON-WESTERN JAPAN SPONTANEITY AND INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE AT MIDWAY INDIVIDUALISM IN WESTERN WARFARE

TEN - Dissent and Self-Critique

BATTLES AGAINST THE CITIES VICTORY AS DEFEAT AFTERMATH WAR AMID AUDIT, SCRUTINY, AND SELF-CRITIQUE

Glossary EPILOGUE - Western Warfare— Past and Future AFTERWORD - Carnage and Culture after September 11, 2001 For Further Reading About the Author Also by Victor Davis Hanson Copyright Page