Abbenhuis Maartje, Buttsworth Sara. Restaging War in the Western World: Noncombatant Experiences, 1890-Today. Palgrave Macmillan,2009. — 242 p.. 2009

This collection seeks to move the perspectives that are marginal to main­stream war stories and histories onto center stage, acknowledging their importance and destabilizing the primacy of the combatant in contempo­rary Western culture. It follows three thematic trajectories in pulling the curtain back: direct experiences of war from those who are not warriors, through gender, place in time, or neutral status; representations and memo­ries of war; and examinations of the importance of peace movements and protests against war, the ways in which the boundaries between war and peacetime are not “impermeable” as so eloquently stated by Claire Wills. All of the articles in this collection work to either explain or undermine the staging of warfare as a monolithic and acontextual production whose pri­mary focus is the soldier as both actor and victim.5 In popular culture, as much as in the scholarly study of modern warfare, wars are often presented as having an appearance of order and coherence. Not for nothing did Rex arrange his war toys in neat orderly lines. This impression has continued even when dealing with the chaos of the battle­field and conflicts that occurred long after the set-piece battle was relegated to the world of reenactments and board games. When, in 1991, Jean Baudrillard controversially claimed the Gulf War did not take place, he was asking us to examine more deeply the spectacle and simulacra of war and to look past the action in the spotlight to what was going on behind the scenes and beyond the footlights.6 Even the most carefully staged incursions have unexpected spillage in all sorts of unforeseen areas. War is not contain­able in terms of time, place, or impact.

Books and textbooks on the discipline World history:

1. Beaton Roderick. The Greeks: A Global History. Basic Books,2021. — 608 p. - 2021 ãîä
2. Antony Robert, Carroll Stuart, Pennock Caroline D. (eds.). The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 3: AD 1500-AD 1800. Cambridge University Press,2020. — 710 p. - 2020 ãîä
3. Bang Peter F., Bayly C.A., Scheidel Walter (eds.). The Oxford World History of Empire. Volume Two: The History of Empires. Oxford University Press,2020. — 1352 p. - 2020 ãîä
4. Bang Peter F., Bayly C.A., Scheidel Walter (eds.). The Oxford World History of Empire. Volume One: The Imperial Experience. Oxford University Press,2020. — 584 p. - 2020 ãîä
5. Edwards Louise, Penn Nigel, Winter Jay (eds.). The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 4: 1800 to the Present. Cambridge University Press,2020. — 676 p. - 2020 ãîä
6. Fagan Garrett G., Fibiger Linda, Hudson Mark, Trundle Matthew (eds.). The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 1: The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Cambridge University Press,2020. — 756 p. - 2020 ãîä
7. Gordon Matthew, Kaeuper Richard, Zurndorfer Harriet (eds.). The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1500. Cambridge University Press,2020. — 696 p. - 2020 ãîä
8. Abulafia David. The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans. Oxford University Press,2019. — 1088 p. - 2019 ãîä
9. Bagge Sverre H.. State Formation in Europe, 843-1789: A Divided World. Routledge,2019. — 306 p. - 2019 ãîä
10. Armitage David, Bashford Alison et al. (eds.). Oceanic Histories. Cambridge University Press,2018. — 338 p. - 2018 ãîä
11. Barcelo Juan A., Del Castillo Florencia (eds.). Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds. Springer,2016. — 410 p. - 2016 ãîä
12. Bauer Susan Wise. The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor. Peace Hill Press,2015. — 338 p. - 2015 ãîä
13. Aldrich Robert, McKenzie Kirsten (eds.). The Routledge History of Western Empires. Routledge,2014. — 542 p. - 2014 ãîä
14. Alpers Edward A.. The Indian Ocean in World History. Oxford University Press,2014. — 182 p. - 2014 ãîä
15. Abulafia David. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean. London: Allen Lane; Penguin Books,2012. — 816 p. - 2012 ãîä
16. Aberth John. Plagues in World History. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,2011. — 257 p. - 2011 ãîä
17. Adolf Antony. Peace: A World History. Polity,2009. — 298 p. - 2009 ãîä
18. Ansary Tamim. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. PublicAffairs,2009. — 416 p. - 2009 ãîä
19. Best Antony. International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Routledge,2008. — 638 p. - 2008 ãîä
20. Abernethy David B.. The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980. Yale University Press,2002. — 524 p. - 2002 ãîä