Macgregor Knox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Macgregor Knox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Macgregor |
| FAMILY NAME | Knox |
| SIGNATURE | KNOX M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Thinking War – History Lite
On the first page of On War Carl von Clausewitz quipped that ‘the maximum use of force is in no way incompatible with the simultaneous use of the intellect’. Beatrice Heuser might object to Clausew
To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33
To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. It lays a foundation for understanding the Nazi and Fascist regimes through parallel investigations of Italian and German society, institutions, and national myths; the supreme test of the First World War; and the post-1918 struggles from which the Fascist and National Socialist movem…
To the Threshold of Power, 1922/33
To the Threshold of Power is the first volume of a two-part work that seeks to explain the origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. It lays a foundation for understanding the Nazi and Fascist regimes through parallel investigations of Italian and German society, institutions, and national myths; the supreme test of the First World War; and the post-1918 struggles from which the Fascist and National Socialist movem…
Common Destiny
Introduction: war and revolution in Europe, 1789-1945 Part I. Origins and Dynamics: 1. Italy and Germany from unification to militant dictatorship, 1860-1933 2. Conquest, foreign and domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Part II. Foreign Policies and Military Instruments: 3. Fascism and Italian foreign polity: continuity and break 4. The Italian army at war, 1940-43: a study in combat effectiveness 5. The Prussian idea of freedom and the 'c…
Worth a Second Look
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By prov…
Common Destiny
Hitler's Italian Allies
Introduction: defeat - and humiliation 1. Fascist Italy's last war 2. Society, politics, regime, industry 3. Men and machines: the Armed Forces and modern warfare 4. Strategy 5. Operations 6. Tactics Conclusion: the weight of the past
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Common Destiny
This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. It seeks to understand their similarities and differences historically, without recourse to failed generic concepts such as 'Fascism.' The result is an unconventional and compelling analytical overview from territorial unification in the 1860s to national catastrophe in 1943/45 that places Fa…
Hitler's Italian Allies
Fascist Italy's ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler's failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy's defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own unaided forces in the entire Second World War was a dusty and useless corner of Africa, British Somaliland. And Italy's forces dissolved in 1943 almost without resistance, in stark contrast to th…
October 1942
The origins of the process that transmuted Prussia–Germany's most hallowed social institution and professional group, the officer corps, into a functional elite of ‘National Socialist Führer-personalities’ remain obscure. Recent studies have argued that the ‘structural pressures of modern war’ – the immense losses of summer 1942 – compelled the abolition of time-honoured educational and social qualifications for officer candidacy and the basing o…
The Making of Strategy
Das Vergangene Reich
Strategic Views from the Second Tier
War and Economy in the Third Reich
The Fascist Regime, its Foreign Policy and its Wars
The de-legitimisation of the Italian political system that culminated in the upheavals of the late 1980s has permitted a very public re-examination of the meaning and significance of both the Fascist regime and the Resistance to it. Although debates between historians had already begun over these issues, they have been thrust into the media spotlight now that the political consensus surrounding their interpretation has collapsed. The following tw…
The Making of Strategy
German Nationalism and the European Response, 1890-1945
German Nationalism and the European Response, 1890-1945
Africa settentrionale 1940-1943
The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939
Conquest, Foreign and Domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Il fallimento del liberalismo
The Fascist Regime, its Foreign Policy and its Wars
The de-legitimisation of the Italian political system that culminated in the upheavals of the late 1980s has permitted a very public re-examination of the meaning and significance of both the Fascist regime and the Resistance to it. Although debates between historians had already begun over these issues, they have been thrust into the media spotlight now that the political consensus surrounding their interpretation has collapsed. The following tw…
The Making of Strategy
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941
October 1942
The origins of the process that transmuted Prussia–Germany's most hallowed social institution and professional group, the officer corps, into a functional elite of ‘National Socialist Führer-personalities’ remain obscure. Recent studies have argued that the ‘structural pressures of modern war’ – the immense losses of summer 1942 – compelled the abolition of time-honoured educational and social qualifications for officer candidacy and the basing o…
In Command of France
Bulgarien - Hitlers eigenwilliger Verbundeter. Eine Fallstudie zur nationalsozialistischen Sudosteuropapolitik
Mussolini Unleashed, 1939–1941
This book explores the motives, preparation, objectives, contact and consequences of Italy's war of 1940, which ended the country's role as a great power and reduced it to the status of first among Germany's satellites. What Professor Knox demonstrates more clearly than any previous biographer or historian is the limits of Mussolini's power. In particular, thanks to exhaustive research in the relevant archives, he has been able to throw important…
Mussolini Unleashed, 1939-1941
Il fallimento del liberalismo
Conquest, Foreign and Domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
German Nationalism and the European Response, 1890-1945
Africa settentrionale 1940-1943
The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939
German Nationalism and the European Response, 1890-1945
The Making of Strategy
The Fascist Regime, its Foreign Policy and its Wars
The de-legitimisation of the Italian political system that culminated in the upheavals of the late 1980s has permitted a very public re-examination of the meaning and significance of both the Fascist regime and the Resistance to it. Although debates between historians had already begun over these issues, they have been thrust into the media spotlight now that the political consensus surrounding their interpretation has collapsed. The following tw…
Strategic Views from the Second Tier
War and Economy in the Third Reich
The Making of Strategy
Das Vergangene Reich
Common Destiny
This book offers a genuinely comparative analysis of the dictatorships that launched the Second World War: their origins, nature, dynamics, and common ruin. It seeks to understand their similarities and differences historically, without recourse to failed generic concepts such as 'Fascism.' The result is an unconventional and compelling analytical overview from territorial unification in the 1860s to national catastrophe in 1943/45 that places Fa…
Hitler's Italian Allies
Fascist Italy's ultimate defeat was foreordained. It was a pygmy among giants, and Hitler's failure to destroy the Soviet Union in 1941 doomed all three Axis powers. But Italy's defeat was unique; the only asset that it conquered - briefly - with its own unaided forces in the entire Second World War was a dusty and useless corner of Africa, British Somaliland. And Italy's forces dissolved in 1943 almost without resistance, in stark contrast to th…
October 1942
The origins of the process that transmuted Prussia–Germany's most hallowed social institution and professional group, the officer corps, into a functional elite of ‘National Socialist Führer-personalities’ remain obscure. Recent studies have argued that the ‘structural pressures of modern war’ – the immense losses of summer 1942 – compelled the abolition of time-honoured educational and social qualifications for officer candidacy and the basing o…
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050
The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes; and 'revolutions in military affairs', which military institutions have directed, although usually with great difficulty and ambiguous results. By prov…
Common Destiny
Hitler's Italian Allies
Introduction: defeat - and humiliation 1. Fascist Italy's last war 2. Society, politics, regime, industry 3. Men and machines: the Armed Forces and modern warfare 4. Strategy 5. Operations 6. Tactics Conclusion: the weight of the past
The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
Worth a Second Look
Common Destiny
Introduction: war and revolution in Europe, 1789-1945 Part I. Origins and Dynamics: 1. Italy and Germany from unification to militant dictatorship, 1860-1933 2. Conquest, foreign and domestic, in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Part II. Foreign Policies and Military Instruments: 3. Fascism and Italian foreign polity: continuity and break 4. The Italian army at war, 1940-43: a study in combat effectiveness 5. The Prussian idea of freedom and the 'c…
Political science (25 works) · History (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (14 works) · Economic history (13 works) · European history and politics (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · German (7 works) · Nazism (7 works)