Wayne Lee
I maintain a career summary website at https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/.
I have posted many of my papers here, although I continue to be concerned about the propriety of doing so.
I notice that my "Peace Chiefs" article is pretty popular; let me suggest you see the significantly expanded version in my book Barbarians and Brothers (it is blown up into 2 chapters in that book).
I have posted many of my papers here, although I continue to be concerned about the propriety of doing so.
I notice that my "Peace Chiefs" article is pretty popular; let me suggest you see the significantly expanded version in my book Barbarians and Brothers (it is blown up into 2 chapters in that book).
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It examines and compares the process of consolidating victory into post-conquest rule among pre-industrial agrarian, steppe, and Eastern Woodlands societies. Establishes the theoretical framework for a larger book project on Conquest methods and the Four Pillars of rule: Legitimacy, Sanctity, Bureaucracy, and Latent Force
An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield
Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield.
Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification.
In addition to a revised and expanded introduction, the second edition of Warfare and Culture in World History now adds new chapters on the role of herding in shaping Mongol strategies, Spanish military culture and its effects on the conquest of the New World, and the blending of German and East African military cultures among the Africans who served in the German colonial army. This volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.
Our investigations suggest that the Mongol campaign in Hungary used a military strategy shaped by the usual methods of nomadic pastoral societies in wars among themselves in which the extensive massacres of the defeated population, along with the elimination of some of the local political elite, were widely used in order to establish a new political order and consolidate victory. The limitations of the Mongols' political structures at that juncture in their imperial expansion and the basic nature of their subsistence system curtailed traditional state-like forms of territorial control and may have contributed to the departure of the Mongol forces from the Hungarian Kingdom.
It examines and compares the process of consolidating victory into post-conquest rule among pre-industrial agrarian, steppe, and Eastern Woodlands societies. Establishes the theoretical framework for a larger book project on Conquest methods and the Four Pillars of rule: Legitimacy, Sanctity, Bureaucracy, and Latent Force
An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield
Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield.
Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification.
In addition to a revised and expanded introduction, the second edition of Warfare and Culture in World History now adds new chapters on the role of herding in shaping Mongol strategies, Spanish military culture and its effects on the conquest of the New World, and the blending of German and East African military cultures among the Africans who served in the German colonial army. This volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.
Our investigations suggest that the Mongol campaign in Hungary used a military strategy shaped by the usual methods of nomadic pastoral societies in wars among themselves in which the extensive massacres of the defeated population, along with the elimination of some of the local political elite, were widely used in order to establish a new political order and consolidate victory. The limitations of the Mongols' political structures at that juncture in their imperial expansion and the basic nature of their subsistence system curtailed traditional state-like forms of territorial control and may have contributed to the departure of the Mongol forces from the Hungarian Kingdom.