Modern Wars In Perspective
Britain's Colonial Wars, 1688-1783
1st Edition
By Bruce Lenman
January 12, 2001
From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was born. This penetrating new analysis ...
England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity
1st Edition
By Bruce Lenman
December 06, 2000
Bruce Lenman's hugely ambitious study explores three interacting themes: the growth of England's sprawling colonial empire; its military dimension; and the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. He starts in Ireland, with the renewed assault of English settlers on the Irish ...
The French Civil Wars, 1562-1598
1st Edition
By R. J. Knecht
August 10, 2000
The French Wars of Religion tore the country apart for almost fifty years. They were also part of the wider religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants which raged across Europe during the 16th century. This new study, by a major authority on French history, explores the impact of these ...
The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558 - 1721
1st Edition
By Robert I. Frost
August 08, 2000
This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought for control of the Baltic and Northeastern Europe during the period 1558-1721. It is the first comprehensive history which considers the revolution in military strategy which took place in the ...
The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714
1st Edition
By John A. Lynn
May 06, 1999
Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king', Louis XIV. For forty years from 1672, France was continuously at war and had one of the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. The campaigns secured little territory, but almost bankrupted the country and the consequences...
The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By J.R. Jones
April 30, 1996
This study of the Anglo--Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74) sets them in their naval, political and economic contexts. Competing essentially over trade, both governments were crucially influenced by mercantile interests and by the representative institutions that were central to England and the...
China at War 1901-1949
1st Edition
By Edward L. Dreyer
July 13, 1995
Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, through anarchy, civil war and invasion, to the final triumph of the Communists in 1949 - yet few periods are as ...
The War of Austrian Succession 1740-1748
1st Edition
By M.S. Anderson
January 23, 1995
Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsurgs: soon, Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony and the ...
The Spanish-American War 1895-1902: Conflict in the Caribbean and the Pacific
1st Edition
By Joseph Smith
August 01, 1994
Fought in both Caribbean and Pacific and turning on America's superior naval strength, this short but decisive war had momentous consequences internationally. It ended Spain's imperial power, and the US emerged for the first time as an active force in world affairs, acquiring -- amidst much ...
The Wars of French Decolonization
1st Edition
By Anthony Clayton
July 18, 1994
This ambitious survey draws together the two major wars of decolonization fought by France in Indochina and Algeria (as well as the lesser but far from insignificant military operations in Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco) into a single integrated account. It examines traditional French attitudes to...