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5 Military History books spotlighting LSU Press, NYU Press, and MIT Press – October 1 2020
Category: All General History
My posts about books that look across multiple periods of military history
Geoffrey Plank interview about his 15th to 19th centuries military history book “Atlantic Wars” (Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Geoffrey Plank interview about his 15th to 19th centuries military history book “Atlantic Wars”
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Interview Summary
Geoffrey Plank has been a historian for many years focusing on Nova Scotia, Quakers, and now military history. He’s written an expansive review of warfare across the Atlantic from the 15th to 19th centuries. We talked about this period, the book, and the immense impact the slave trade had on the formation of the nations along the Atlantic seaboard and on warfare.
(THE AUDIO PLAYER IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST.)
0:40 – Geoffrey explains how he ended up writing an expansive book on Atlantic Wars.
2:02 – Geoffrey explains how he organized the book since it covers so much time and countries.
3:16 – Geoffrey talks about warfare at sea.
5:24 – Geoffrey addresses the idea of democracy and piracy.
7:14 – Geoffrey explains why he started the book in the 15th century.
8:53 – Geoffrey explains why he ended the book at the Age of Revolution.
11:37 – Geoffrey addresses the North Africans raiding Europe.
13:17 – Geoffrey talks about the shift to larger sailing vessels.
16:18 – Geoffrey talks about indigenous populations involvement in the Atlantic war at sea.
18:32 – Geoffrey talks about the war on land around the Atlantic basin and the involvement of indigenous populations.
21:27 – Geoffrey talks about the West African coast.
23:11 – Geoffrey talks about military forces in West Africa.
24:11 – Geoffrey talks about the North and South Atlantic.
26:09 – Geoffrey talks about the development of racism in this period.
30:24 – Geoffrey talks about how often whole colonies were evacuated from the New World to the Old. He also addresses the connection between the slave trade and military operations.
34:40 – Geoffrey talks about the meeting between African slaves and indigenous Americans.
36:38 – Geoffrey talks about a millenarian religious movement.
38:40 – Geoffrey talks about how he did his research.
43:09 – Geoffrey talks about including all of North America within the Atlantic World.
45:20 – Geoffrey talks about the importance of military history in the Atlantic World.
47:46 – Geoffrey talks about galleys being used to block forts in the Caribbean.
50:17 – Geoffrey talks about how rough the lives of sailors were in this period.
54:40 – Geoffrey talks about the role of Central and Eastern Europe in the Atlantic World.
Links of interest
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atlantic-wars-9780190860455?cc=us&lang=en&
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Guests: Geoffrey Plank
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, academic, podcast, Oxford University Press, age of sail, American history, General military history, 19th century war, 18th century war, Renaissance warfare, Naval Warfare, Slavery history, native american, indigenous peoples,
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Global military history book – “The 100 Worst Military Disasters in History” (ABC-CLIO, 2020) – John Kuehn interview
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Dr. John Kuehn is a former US Naval officer and currently studies, teaches, and writes history at the United States Command and General Staff College. We spoke about his latest co-authored book on some of the world’s worst military disasters.
1:48 – John talks about how he developed the book on military disasters.
3:17 – John talks about the chronological format of the book.
4:48 – John talks about how they focused on both campaigns and wars.
10:11 – John talks about civil wars and revolution.
12:52 – John talks about technological impact on military campaigns.
15:39 – John talks about the impact of logistics on military disasters.
17:06 – John talks about pre-war preparation and its effects on wars.
22:36 – John talks about naval campaigns and disasters.
27:09 – John talks about the Russo-Japanese War and the Mexican-American War.
28:50 – John talks about the global, naval and air power focuses in the book. He also addresses contingencies in war.
33:03 – John talks about the vast amount of resources they had to study these wars and campaigns.
35:48 – John talks about the difficulty in determining casualties in war.
40:30 – John talks about the difficulty into coming to conclusions with some of the campaigns in the book.
47:45 – John discusses the end of the Pacific War.
50:10 – John expands on the Taping Rebellion.
1:03:14 – John can be found on twitter @jkuehn50 and by searching for “Hand Grenade of the Month” and H-war on google.
Links of interest
https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5703C
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Guests: Dr. John Kuehn
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: military, history, military history, conflict, war, interview, non-fiction book, military history, fort leavenworth, command general staff college, ancient, medieval, global war on terror, iraqi freedom, Swedish Army, Mosul, American Revolution, French Revolution, English Civil War, Thirty Years’ War, Vietnam War, France, WWI, Germany, Russia, USMC, Japan, Pacific War, China, Salamis, iran-iraq war, Lepanto, Midway, athens, Texas Revolution, Taiping Rebellion, Meggido, Trafalgar, Tudor, York, washington naval conference
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