Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. Victor Hanson

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



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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 506
ISBN: 9780385720380


Why are Western values, ideas, and practices spreading unopposed throughout the world? In Carnage and Culture, military historian Victor Davis Hanson argues that it all comes down to the Western knack for killing. Examining key battles pitting Western against non-Western armies—from the stunning Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. to Cortés' conquest of Mexico City in 1521 to the American-led assault on Iraq in 1990—Hanson reveals the cultural underpinnings that determined the course and consequences of each engagement. As he brings the graphic details of war to life with compelling immediacy, Hanson zeros in on the cultural values that have enabled Western armies, often vastly outnumbered and far from home, to slaughter their opponents and impose their social, economic, political, and cultural structures on other civilizations. The author delineates the characteristics of successful armies&3151;including individual initiative, superior organization and discipline, access to matchless weapons, and tactical adaptation and flexibility. Then he shows how these characteristics develop and flourish as a result of such traditional Western institutions and ideals as consensual government, free inquiry and innovative enterprise, rationalism, and the value placed on freedom and individualism.

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