Offers a general explanation of how war, in itself brutalizing and destructive, can assist social change. Participation in war brings new status to depressed cl

Modern Britain is a nation shaped by wars. The boundaries of its separate parts are the outcome of conquest and resistance. The essence of its identity are the

This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.

"In recent years the field of modern history has been enriched by the exploration of two parallel histories. These are the social and cultural history of armed