Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day

1. Introduction: Guerrillas and Counterinsurgency in History
Brian Hughes, Fergus Robson

Part I. Insurgents, Counterinsurgency, and Civilians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2. Gender and ‘Population-centric’ Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Julia Welland

3. ‘The Best Fellagha Hunter is the French of North African Descent’: Harkis in French Algeria
Raphaëlle Branche

4. ‘Black-and-Tan Tendencies’: Policing Insurgency in the Palestine Mandate, 1922–48
Seán William Gannon

5. ‘The Entire Population of this God-forsaken Island is Terrorised by a Small Band of Gun-men’: Guerrillas and Civilians During the Irish Revolution
Brian Hughes

6. American Civil War Guerrillas
Daniel E. Sutherland

Part II. Small War from the Early Modern World to Antiquity

7. Insurgent Identities, Destructive Discourses, and Militarized Massacre: French Armies on the Warpath against Insurgents in the Vendée, Italy, and Egypt
Fergus Robson

8. Lords of the Forests in Flanders: Small War by Freebooters and the Dutch Contributions System in Flanders, 1584–1592
Tim Piceu

9. ‘A Great Company of Country Clowns’: Guerrilla Warfare in the East Anglian and Western Rebellions (1549)
Alexander Hodgkins

10. Good King Robert’s Testament?: Guerrilla Warfare in Later Medieval Scotland
Alastair J. Macdonald

11. Guerilla Warfare and Revolt in Second Century Bc Egypt
Brian McGing

12. Unorthodox Warfare? Variety and Change in Archaic Greek Warfare (ca. 700–ca. 480 BCE)
Matthew Lloyd

Keywords: History, History of Military, Ancient History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, Crime and Society