Modern Wars In Perspective
The Ottomans 1700-1923: An Empire Besieged
2nd Edition
By Virginia Aksan
September 28, 2021
Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century, finally imploding in communal violence, paramilitary activity, and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878. ...
The Global Seven Years War 1754–1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest
2nd Edition
By Daniel Baugh
July 07, 2021
In this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings – always French – that failed to receive needed financial support. From ...
The Wars of Napoleon
2nd Edition
By Charles J Esdaile
February 18, 2019
First published in 1995 to great critical acclaim, The Wars of Napoleon provides students with a comprehensive survey of the Napoleonic Wars around the central theme of the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states, from Portugal to Russia and from Scandinavia to Sicily...
The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe
2nd Edition
By Christine Shaw, Michael Mallett
October 24, 2018
The Italian Wars 1494–1559 outlines the major impact that these wars had, not just on the history of Italy, but on the history of Europe as a whole. It provides the first detailed account of the entire course of the wars, covering all the campaigns and placing the military conflicts in their ...
The Dutch Wars of Independence: Warfare and Commerce in the Netherlands 1570-1680
1st Edition
By Marjolein 't Hart
March 03, 2014
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain - one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled mighty powers...
The War of American Independence: 1775-1783
1st Edition
By Richard Middleton
September 30, 2011
Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. Although they eventually secured independence, it was only with the assistance of France and indirectly...
War and Empire: The Expansion of Britain, 1790-1830
1st Edition
By B. Collins
May 06, 2010
The years 1790 to 1830 saw Britain engage in an extensive period of war-waging and empire-building which transformed its position as an imperial state, established its reputation as a distinctive military power and secured naval preeminence. Despite this apparent success, Britain did not become a ...
The Great War: 1914-1918
2nd Edition
By Ian F. W. Beckett
October 08, 2007
The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural ...
The Seven Years War in Europe: 1756-1763
1st Edition
By Franz A.J. Szabo
August 23, 2007
In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war.Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth that the Seven Years War was won through the ...
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
1st Edition
By I.J. Gentles
March 29, 2007
Ian Gentles provides a riveting, in-depth analysis of the battles and sieges, as well as the political and religious struggles that underpinned them. Based on extensive archival and secondary research he undertakes the first sustained attempt to arrive at global estimates of the human and economic ...
Russia's Wars of Emergence 1460-1730
1st Edition
By Carol Stevens
March 22, 2007
Russia’s emergence as a Great Power in the eighteenth century is usually attributed to Peter I’s radical programme of ‘Westernising’ reforms. But the Russian military did not simply copy European armies. Adapting the tactics of its neighbours on both sides, Russia ...
Austria's Wars of Emergence, 1683-1797
1st Edition
By Michael Hochedlinger
March 31, 2003
The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern ...