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Recensioni Book Reviews NUOVA RIVISTA INTERDISCIPLINARE DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI STORIA MILITARE supplemento Recensioni Book Reviews Società Italiana di Storia Militare Direttore scientifico Virgilio Ilari Vicedirettore scientifico Giovanni Brizzi Direttore responsabile Gregory Claude Alegi Redazione Viviana Castelli Consiglio Scientifico. Presidente: Massimo De Leonardis. Membri stranieri: Christopher Bassford, Floribert Baudet, Stathis Birthacas, Jeremy Martin Black, Loretana de Libero, Magdalena de Pazzis Pi Corrales, Gregory Hanlon, John Hattendorf, Yann Le Bohec, Aleksei Nikolaevič Lobin, Prof. Armando Marques Guedes, Prof. Dennis Showalter (†). Membri italiani: Livio Antonielli, Antonello Folco Biagini, Aldino Bondesan, Franco Cardini, Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi, Piero del Negro, Giuseppe De Vergottini, Carlo Galli, Roberta Ivaldi, Nicola Labanca, Luigi Loreto, Gian Enrico Rusconi, Carla Sodini, Donato Tamblé, Comitato consultivo sulle scienze militari e gli studi di strategia, intelligence e geopolitica: Lucio Caracciolo, Flavio Carbone, Basilio Di Martino, Antulio Joseph Echevarria II, Carlo Jean, Gianfranco Linzi, Edward N. Luttwak, Matteo Paesano, Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte. Consulenti di aree scientifiche interdisciplinari: Donato Tamblé (Archival Sciences), Piero Cimbolli Spagnesi (Architecture and Engineering), Immacolata Eramo (Philology of Military Treatises), Simonetta Conti (Historical Geo-Cartography), Lucio Caracciolo (Geopolitics), Jeremy Martin Black (Global Military History), Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina (History of International Law of War), Gianfranco Linzi (Intelligence), Elena Franchi (Memory Studies and Anthropology of Conflicts), Virgilio Ilari (Military Bibliography), Luigi Loreto (Military Historiography), Basilio Di Martino (Military Technology and Air Studies), John Brewster Hattendorf (Naval History and Maritime Studies), Elina Gugliuzzo (Public History), Vincenzo Lavenia (War and Religion), Angela Teja (War and Sport), Stefano Pisu (War Cinema), Giuseppe Della Torre (War Economics). Nuova Antologia Militare Rivista interdisciplinare della Società Italiana di Storia Militare Periodico telematico open-access annuale (www.nam-sism.org) Registrazione del Tribunale Ordinario di Roma n. 06 del 30 Gennaio 2020 Direzione, Via Bosco degli Arvali 24, 00148 Roma Contatti: [email protected] ; [email protected] © 2020 Società Italiana di Storia Militare (www.societaitalianastoriamilitare@org) Grafica: Nadir Media Srl - Via Giuseppe Veronese, 22 - 00146 Roma [email protected] Gruppo Editoriale Tab Srl - Lungotevere degli Anguillara, 11 - 00153 Roma www.tabedizioni.it ISSN: 2704-9795 ISBN Supplemento 2020: 978-88-9295-024-5 NUOVA RIVISTA INTERDISCIPLINARE DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI STORIA MILITARE supplemento Recensioni Book Reviews Società Italiana di Storia Militare Books Reading Read Free Photo https://www.needpix.com/photo/1102451/books-reading-read-writer-antiques 3 Indice del Supplemento, Anno 1 (Ottobre 2020) RECENSIONI / BOOK REVIEWS I Storiografia militare Military Historiography 1 JEREMY BLACK, Military Strategy. A global History, Pag. 9 [di VIRGILIO ILARI] 2 DAVID L. LUPHER, Romans in A New World: “ 27 Classical Models in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America, [di LUCA DOMIZIO] “ 37 3 VIRGILIO ILARI, Clausewitz in Italia e altri scritti militari, [by ANDREA POLEGATO] “ 49 4 JIM STORR, The Hall of Mirror: War and Warfare in the Twentieth Century, [by MARTIN SAMUELS] 5 J. BLACK, Tank Warfare, “ 53 [by M. MAZZIOTTI DI CELSO] 6 JOHN LEWIS GADDIS, Lezioni di strategia (On Strategy), “ 63 [di MATTEO MAZZIOTTI DI CELSO] “ 73 7 GIANNA CHRISTINE FENAROLI, Financial Warfare. Money as an instrument of conflict and tension in international arena [di DARIO RIDOLFO] “ 77 8 FABIO DE NINNO, Piero Pieri. Il pensiero e lo storico militare, [di GIOVANNI CECINI] II Storia Militare Antica e Medievale Ancient and Medieval Military History 1 LEE L. BRICE (Ed.), New Approaches to Pag. 85 Greek and Roman Warfare, [di VINCENZO MICALETTI] 4 2 JOHN HALDON, L’impero che non voleva morire. Pag. 93 Il paradosso di Bisanzio, [di CARLO ALBERTO REBOTTINI] 3 DOMENICO CARRO, Orbis maritimus. La geografia imperiale “ 101 e la grande strategia marittima di Roma, [di TOMMASO PISTONI] 4 FRANÇOIS CADIOU, L’Armée imaginaire. Les soldats prolétaires “ 107 dans les légions romaines au dernier siècle de la République, [di CLAUDIO VACANTI] 5 ANTONIO MUSARRA, Il Grifo e il Leone. Genova e Venezia “ 117 in lotta per il Mediterraneo, [di VITO CASTAGNA] 6 PAOLO GRILLO e ALDO A. SETTIA (cur.), “ 123 Guerre ed Eserciti nel Medioevo [di ANDREA TOMASINI] III Storia Militare Moderna Modern Military History 1 GREGORY HANLON, European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Pag. 131 Fierce Pageant, [by EMANUELE FARRUGGIA] 2 GERASSIMOS D. PAGRATIS (Ed.), War, State and Society in the “ 135 Ionian Sea (late 14th – early 19th century), [by STATHIS BIRTHACHAS] 3 GUIDO CANDIANI, Dalla galea alla nave di linea. Le “ 147 trasformazioni della marina veneziana (1572-1699), [di EMILIANO BERI] 4 PAOLA BIANCHI e PIERO DEL NEGRO (cur.), “ 153 Guerre ed eserciti nell’età moderna, [di GUIDO CANDIANI] 5 VIRGILIO ILARI e GIANCARLO BOERI, Velletri 1744. “ 159 La mancata riconquista austriaca delle Due Sicilie, [di ROBERTO SCONFIENZA] 6 ROBERTO SCONFIENZA (cur.), La campagna gallispana “ 163 del 1744. Storia e archeologia militare di un anno di guerra fra Piemonte e Delfinato, [di PIERO CROCIANI] 5 7 CARLOS PÉREZ FERNÁNDEZ-TURÉGANO, El Real Cuerpo de Pag. 169 Artillería de Marina en el siglo XVIII (1717-1800). Corpus legislativo y documental, [por MANUELA FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ] 8 WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, The Anarchy; “ 175 the Relentless Rise of the East Indian Company, [by JEREMY BLACK] 9 LARRIE D. FERREIRO, Hermanos de Armas. La intervención “ 179 de España y Francia que salvó la independencia de los Estados Unidos, [por LEANDRO MARTÍNEZ PEÑAS] 10 ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE, The Napoleonic Wars. “ 185 A Global History, [di DANIELE CAL] 11 CARMINE PINTO, La guerra per il Mezzogiorno, “ 191 [di EMILIANO BERI] 12 DANIEL WHITTINGHAM, Charles E Callwell “ 199 and the British Way in Warfare, [di LUCA DOMIZIO] 13 SONG-CHUAN CHEN, Merchants of War and Peace. “ 207 British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War, [di ALESSIA ORLANDI] IV Storia Militare Contemporanea Contemporary Military History 1 CHRISTIAN TH. MÜLLER, Jenseits der Materialschlacht. Pag. 219 Der Erste Weltkrieg als Bewegungskrieg, [di PAOLO POZZATO] 2 CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS, Civilian Specialist at War Britain s “ 223 Transport Expert and First World War, [di MARCO LEOFRIGIO] 3 JAMIE H. COCKFIELD, Russia’s Iron General. “ 227 The Life of Aleksei A. Brusilov, 1953-1926, [di PAOLO POZZATO] 4 LÉVON NORDIGUIAN & JEAN-CLAUDE VOISIN, La Grande “ 231 Guerre au Moyen-Orient. Antoine Poidebard sur les routes de Perse, [par JEAN-BAPTISTE MANCHON] 6 5 FILIPPO CAPPELLANO e BASILIO DI MARTINO, Pag. 235 La catena di Comando nella Grande Guerra. Procedure e strumenti per il comandi e controllo nell’esperienza del Regio Esercito (1915-18), [di PAOLO FORMICONI] 6 FERDINANDO SCALA, Il Generale Armando Tallarigo. “ 239 Dalla leggenda della Brigata Sassari al Dopoguerra, [di FLAVIO CARBONE] 7 PAOLO GASPARI, PAOLO POZZATO, FERDINANDO SCALA, “ 245 I Generali italiani della Grande Guerra, Volume 2 (C-Z) [di FLAVIO CARBONE] 8 SINCLAIR MCKAY, Il fuoco e l’oscurità: Dresda 1945, “ 249 [di PAOLO CEOLA] 9 PIER PAOLO BATTISTELLI, Storia Militare della Repubblica “ 253 Sociale Italiana. [di VIRGILIO ILARI] 10 BENNY MORRIS, Medio Oriente dentro la guerra. “ 259 Le guerre di confine di Israele 1949-1956, [di ALESSANDRO TRABUCCO] Quinto Cenni, Comando della Guardia Nazionale Cispadana (1906) NYPL Collezione Vinkhuijzen 7 I Storiografia Militare Military Historiography 8 Dan Smith, Knowledge Wins, poster della American Library Association (Flick’s The Commons. wikimedia commons) 9 JEREMY BLACK, Military Strategy. A Global History, Yale U. P., 2020, 420 pp. Plotting Power. Strategy in the Eighteenth Century, Indiana U. P., 2017, 320 pp. on Military Strategy: A Global History, Jeremy Black, uno dei più originali storici militari contemporanei (e di sicuro il più fecondo1), C estende agli ultimi quattro secoli la «storia militare globale» del Set- 1 V. in fondo alla recensione l’incredibile elenco di oltre 170 volumi pubblicati dal 1985 al 2020 (in media sei all’anno), inclusi già un paio in calendario per il 2021. Non si con- tano articoli, saggi, interviste. L’elenco è anche online al suo sito jeremyblackhistorian (wordpress). NAM, Anno 1 – Supplemento DOI 10.36158/97888929502451 Ottobre 2020 10 SUPPLEMENTO 2020 - RECENSIONI - BOOK REVIEWS tecento che aveva tracciato nel 2017 con Plotting Power2. Storia «globale», un qualificativo che ricorre in numerosi libri di Black3, non significa solo ‘estesa a tutto il mondo’, ma anche onnicomprensiva di tutte le forme di guer- ra nonché comparata, diacronica, transnazionale e non «statocentrica» né «occidentocentrica». Entrambi i volumi, e soprattutto il più recente, richiedono però, a mio avvi- so, un’avvertenza epistemologica preliminare. La questione è che come «tra- ma» narrativa (plot) e struttura interpretativa (frame) di questa «storia militare globale» l’autore ha scelto «strategia», una parola già di per sé ‘camaleontica’ e oggi pure inflazionata e abusata4. Mentre l’aggettivo «militare» dice solo che si vuol parlare di guerra anziché di aziende, perché l’oggetto del libro non è la teoria, ma la prassi, non l’«arte» (tèchne, officium) del generale, ma l’interazione o piuttosto l’«intreccio» degli scopi, dei piani
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