Comment définir la relation qui unit le soldat à son arme ? L’arme appartient au soldat mais le soldat appartient également à son arme. Ne lui confie-t-il pas sa vie ? François Cochet nous montre que le comportement humain, sur un champ de bataille, dépend d’abord et surtout de l’environnement technologique du soldat. Les armes, avant d’être utilisées dans la guerre, sont pensées, élaborées, construites par les décideurs civils et militaires. Une fois produites, il faut apprendre à s’en servir, former les soldats à leur utilisation. L’arme maniée par le combattant arrive ainsi en fin d’une chaîne de décisions complexes et variées, empreintes de multiples systèmes de représentations mentales de la part de ceux qui les ont choisies, comme de ceux qui les utilisent. Technologie guerrière, perceptions des soldats, représentations des armes de l’ennemi : François Cochet signe une histoire totale s’appuyant sur tous les sens des combattants : vue, toucher, ouïe, odorat - l’odeur de la poudre n’est-elle pas souvent mentionnée comme quelque chose d’enivrant ? « Faire dire la guerre aux armes ». Telle est l’ambition de cette étude captivante, histoire à hauteur d’homme cernant au plus près l’expérience combattante.

Synthèse chronologique et évolutive de la production des armes, de la préhistoire jusqu'au XXIe siècle. Décrit notamment les multiples utilisations de l'arme (chasse, commerce, colonisation, bataille, tir sportif, guerre) et le métier d'armurier. Contient également un glossaire regroupant 1.250 mots.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

This textbook provides an overview of qualitive and quantitative methods used in different social sciences to investigate defence issues. Recently, defence issues have become of increasing interest to researchers in the social sciences, but they raise specific methodological questions. This volume intends to fill a gap in the literature on defence studies by addressing a number of topics not dealt with sufficiently before. The contributors offer a range of methodological reflections and tools from various social sciences (political science, sociology, geography, history, economics and public law) for researching defence issues. They also address the increasingly important question of data and digitalization. The book introduces the added value of quantitative and qualitative methods, and calls for a cross-fertilization of methods in order to facilitate better research on defence topics and to fully grasp the complexity of defence in the 21st century. This book will be of much interest to students, researchers and practitioners of defence studies, war studies, military studies, and social science research methods in general.

Discusses the history and development of military firearms in Russia, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Mexico, and France.

This book studies the peasantry during the Algerian War of Independence to uncover the long-term ability of this community to sustain an autonomous political culture.

This revised and updated edition of The Great War in History provides the first survey of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020. It demonstrates how the history of the Great War has now gone global, and how the internet revolution has affected the way we understand the conflict. Jay Winter and Antoine Prost assess not only diplomatic and military studies but also the social and cultural interpretations of the war across academic and popular history, family history, and public history, including at museums, on the stage, on screen, in art, and at sites of memory. They provide a fascinating case study of the practice of history and the first survey of the ways in which the Centenary deepened and deflected both public and professional interpretations of the war. This will be essential reading for scholars and students in history, war studies, European history and international relations.

This book explores the why and the how of women’s participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus. The volume is about women who have participated in armed conflict as members of an armed group, trained in military action, with different tasks within the conflict. The chapters endeavor to make women’s own voices heard, to discover the untold stories of women as perpetrators and facilitators of military violence, and the authors do this through the use of personal interviews and the study of primary documents. The work widens the geographical perspective of feminist security studies to discover in what ways the historical, political, and social context has motivated the women to participate in military action, and presents new case study data from Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Cameroon, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Latin America. Temporally, the chapters cover almost two centuries, from the late 19th century to the present day, touching upon a wide variety of examples of armed conflict, from wars of independence to the Second World War. Bringing together approaches from politics, history, anthropology and area studies, the chapters are informed by the fundamental insights of feminist research and address such pivotal questions as hegemonic masculinity in the armed forces and the relation between women’s armed violence and female agency. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers in gender and security studies, armed conflict and history.