David Silbey

Adj. Associate Professor and Director of Teaching and Learning Cornell in Washington

Overview

I specialize in the industrialized total wars of the 20th century and the asymmetric responses (guerrilla warfare, insurgency, and terrorism) to those wars that evolved after 1945. I have written books on the British Army in World War I, the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and American military encounters with other cultures.

I'm the series editor for Cornell University Press' Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Research Focus

Military History and Policy

Publications

This year: 

From me: Beatrice de Graaf, Ozan Ozavci, and Erik de Lange, eds. Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth Century Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024).

From Battlegrounds:  Terrence G. Peterson, Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell University Press, 2024).

Battlegrounds, awards: The Reginald Zelnik Prize in History to Nicole Eaton, German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023).

 

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