Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition

This new edition is significantly more global than the first, with new chapters on the Mongols, the conquest of Mexico, and German East Africa as well as a new introduction by one of the foremost military historians at work today. The book ranges from ancient Assyria to the present, and provides an excellent introduction to the theme of cultural influences upon warmaking, military organizations, and military matters generally. -- J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University
A major contribution to the evolving literature on the importance of culture to understanding the history of warfare. It brings together some of the field's most learned experts and presents us with an insightful global view that should change every reader's ways of understanding this crucial topic. -- Michael Neiberg, author of The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America
Military history today is cultural history or it isn’t anything at all, and Wayne Lee has been one of the gurus of the cultural approach for a long time. This updated edition of the 2011 original retains Lee’s incisive theoretical framework, but contains new essays reflecting a less Western and more global approach. Ranging from ancient Assyria to the Mongols to modern America, this volume is as erudite as it is indispensable. -- Rob Citino, Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, The National World War II Museum
An excellent update to an already crucial collection. Expanded global coverage and a Lee’s expanded and revised theoretical introduction keep this volume at the forefront of the cultural history of warfare. -- Stephen Morillo, Wabash College
Like other collective human endeavors, the practice of warfare reflects the participants’ shared values, fears, implicit and expressed norms of behavior and communal aspirations. With detailed, illuminating case studies that together span more than 2,500 years and circle the globe from the ancient near east to 21st-century America by way of central Asia, China, Europe, Spanish America and Africa, Warfare and Culture in World History makes a forceful case for the importance of culture in shaping military outcomes. -- Geoff Plank, University of East Anglia
These first-rate essays by world-leading experts, now in its second edition, brought together by Wayne Lee addresses a selection of eight fascinating examples ranging from Roman attitudes to war to organizational culture and warfare. Inspirational to anybody from business managers to thinking soldiers and historians. -- Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow