Civil wars: a history in ideas

Introduction : confronting civil war

Part I: Roads from Rome

Inventing civil war : the Roman tradition

Remembering civil war : Roman visions

Part II: Early modern crossroads

Uncivil civil wars : the seventeenth century

Civil war in an age of revolutions : the eighteenth century

Partt III: Paths to the present

Civilizing civil war : the nineteenth century

Worlds of civil war : the twentieth century

Conclusion : civil wars of words.