Making offical history from all over the world accessible, this volume and its companion complement and bring Robin Higham's 1970 classic work, Official Histories up to date. Each chapter, written by staff of the relevant historical office, gives both historiographical background and information on the volumes published by that office. Covering Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, and India, this volume provides a plethora of information, as does the companion volume on the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific Rim.Buried in official history volumes is a lot of fine and useful history, and official volumes deserve to be perused. This book will make those histories available to scholars and graduate students and will be especially useful to those concerned with military, social, and diplomatic history as well as medicine.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Robin Higham
EAN: 9780313286841
COUNTRY: United States
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PUBLISHED BY: ABC-CLIO
DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-05-30
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GENRE: HISTORY / Military / General
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Russia, Middle East, India, Africa, Reference works, Warfare and defence, Historiography, General and world history
?Overall, this work will be useful mainly to professional scholars, researchers, and graduate students. Recommended for large academic, research, and public libraries, especially those with strong military history collections.?-Choice, "Overall, this work will be useful mainly to professional scholars, researchers, and graduate students. Recommended for large academic, research, and public libraries, especially those with strong military history collections."-Choice
ROBIN HIGHAM taught military history at Kansas State University from 1963 to 1998. He is the author of more than 140 articles, 14 monographs and the editor of many bibliographical volumes. He was the editor of Military Affairs from 1968-1988 and Aerospace Historian from 1970 to 1988, and has been editor of The Journal of the West since 1977.
