Insurgency and counterinsurgency: a global history

Introduction

Insurgency to 1500

Contesting Religion and Power, 1500-1700

Entering the Modern? The Eighteenth Century

Insurgencies in an Age of Imperialism: The Nineteenth Century

The Ideology of People's War Refracted, 1900-40

Insurrections at a Height, 1940-60

The Fall of Empires, 1960-80

The Variety of Goals and Means, 1980s

After the Cold War, 1990s

Interventionism and Its Failings, 2000s

A World without Shape? The Present

Speculations about the Future

Conclusions.