Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

524 Pages·2002·4.05 MB·English

by  Victor Hanson

Table of Contents
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
Carnage and Culture
For Donald Kagan and Steven Ozment
Picture Credits for Insert
Alinari/Art Resource, NY, (Darius and Xerxes at Issus); (Issus); (Hannibal)
AP/Wide World Photos (Yorktown hit); (Tet Offensive)
Army Signal Corps Collection/National Archives (Yamaguchi)
Art Collection, Naval Historical Center (Japanese carrier/Battle of Midway
painting)
Bettmann/CORBIS (Salamis); (Darius and Xerxes); (bombers in V formation)
CORBIS (Mexico City, Cortés, Montezuma )
CORBIS/U.S. Navy/UPI (pilots)
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY (Cannae)
Giraudon/Art Resource, NY (Poitiers); (massacre of Aztecs); (Persian soldiers)
The Granger Collection, New York—Page 1, bottom left (Themistocles );
(Alexander the Great); (Spanish besieged); (Lepanto); (defeat of Ottoman navy)
Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS (King Cetewayo, Lord Chelmsford);
(surviving soldiers)
Copyright © Hulton Getty/Liaison Agency ( Rorke’s Drift)
Louvre, Paris, France/Peter Willi/Bridgeman Art Library (Gaugamela)
Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS (Zulu warriors )
U.S. Navy/National Archives (Yorktown in dry dock)
Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY (Poitiers/Frankish version)
List of Maps
The Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Gaugamela
The Battle of Cannae
The Battle of Poitiers
The Battle of Tenochtitlán
The Battle of Lepanto
The Battle for Rorke’s Drift
The Battle of Midway
Major Battles of the Tet Offensive