STUDYING THE CAUSES, CONDUCT, AND CONSEQUENCES OF WAR: THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY
Journal Title: Tractus aevorum: эволюция социокультурных и политических пространств - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Studying the causes, conduct, and consequences of war: The Society for Military History
Authors and Affiliations
Jacqueline E. Witt
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The author reviews the latest monograph by J. Arch Getty, Pro-fessor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles, which offers a new installment in his long running inquiry into the practices of repression...
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THE GHOST OF OLEG THE SEER
This research represents an attempt to reconstruct the real image of Prince Oleg the Seer by separating historical facts from historiographical myths based on Scandinavian, Moravian and Khazar-Karaite epics, some of whic...
HELLENISTIC-ROMAN INTERACTIONS IN WARFARE IN THE SECOND CENTURY BC TO THE FIRST CENTURY AD
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PROFESSORIAL STYLE AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSITY CITIES OF RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
The paper characterizes some features of the professorial life style on the materials of Russian universities in the first half of the 19th century. Author concludes that, taken together, professional and recreational pr...