Warfare and History
About the Book Series
This new series of single-authored books on war, warfare and society marks a major new publishing initiative in military history for undergraduate students. Covering the whole span of history, the series seeks to encourage works on the impact of war and the preparations for war on social, economic and political developments. The books will eschew the 'battles and generals' approach, and seek to place militarism in context.
The War for a Nation: The American Civil War
1st Edition
By Susan-Mary Grant
August 04, 2006
The War for a Nation provides a brief introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings the war, its many battles, and those who fought them – male and female, black and white – to the center of ...
European Warfare, 1660-1815
1st Edition
By Professor Jeremy Black, Jeremy Black
May 22, 2006
This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare ...
Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History
1st Edition
By William J. Hamblin
April 12, 2006
The only book available that covers this subject, Warfare in the Ancient Near East is a groundbreaking and fascinating study of ancient near Eastern military history from the Neolithic era to the middle Bronze Ages. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic and archaeological data, William...
Indian Wars of Canada, Mexico and the United States, 1812-1900
1st Edition
By Bruce Vandervort
January 13, 2006
Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the ‘new military history’ Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900 interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century. Fully ...
The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815
1st Edition
By Owen Connelly
December 15, 2005
Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed ...
War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795
1st Edition
By Peter Lorge
December 15, 2005
This comprehensive survey of Chinese military history is the only book in English to span the significant years from 900 – 1795. Peter Lorge questions current theories on China’s relationship to war, and argues that war was the most important tool used by the Chinese in building and maintaining ...
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan
1st Edition
By Karl Friday
December 29, 2003
Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly twenty years of on-going research and draws on both new readings of primary sources and the most recent secondary ...
Warfare and Society in Europe: 1898 to the Present
1st Edition
By Michael S. Neiberg
December 17, 2003
Warfare and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present examines warfare in Europe from the Fashoda conflict in modern-day Sudan to the recent war in Iraq. The twentieth century was by far the world's most destructive century with two global wars marking the first half of the century and the constant ...
War in the Modern World since 1815
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeremy Black
September 25, 2003
Conflict is central to human history. It is often the cause, course and consequence of social, cultural and political change. Military history therefore has to be more than a technical analysis of armed conflict. War in the Modern World since 1815 addresses war as a cultural phenomenon, discusses ...
World War Two: A Military History
1st Edition
By Professor Jeremy Black
September 10, 2003
Cutting through over half a century of historical build-up, this new and convincing account of World War II uses a global perspective to explain the complicated course in military terms. Black, a distinguished military historian , bucks the current trend to demilitarise and gives due weight to the ...
Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900
1st Edition
By Guy Halsall
June 18, 2003
Guy Halsall relates warfare to many aspects of medieval life, economy, society and politics.This book recovers its distinctiveness, looking at warfare in a rounded context in the British Isles and Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the break-up of the Carolingian Empire. ...
European and Native American Warfare 1675-1815
1st Edition
By Armstrong Starkey
November 01, 2002
Challenging the historical tradition that has denigrated Indians as ‘savages’ and celebrated the triumph of European ‘civilization’, Armstrong Starkey presents military history as only one dimension of a more fundamental conflict of cultures, and re-examines the European invasion of North America ...