The Cambridge History of War
The Cambridge History of War
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USDVolume III of The Cambridge History of War covers the early modern world, offering a four-hundred-year perspective from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the advent of ironclad, steam-driven warships in the mid-nineteenth century. Together, the chapters cover the rise of professional armies and purpose-built warships in Europe; the evolution of military societies in the great Islamic empires; the vicissitudes of Ming and Qing military organization and that of their Asian neighbours; and the raising and maintaining of armies in Africa and the Americas. Numerous processes of imperial expansion, both on land of sea, are examined, as are the processes of global confrontation and interchange across different military systems. Technology, organization, finance, and military cultures are each explored from a broad perspective. Bringing together an impressive team of experts in their fields, the volume provides a comprehensive and accessible history of war from 1450–1850.
- Provides a comprehensive yet accessible global history of war from 1450 to 1850
- Encourages readers to look beyond the existing narrow lens of military history and instead focus on warfare in its much wider civil and political context
- Challenges assumptions that naval history is a separate discipline by considering naval warfare to be as important as war on lan
- Provides a comprehensive and globally comparative account of technological and organizational change in warfare from 1450-1850
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September 2025Hardback
9780521874281
688 pages
229 × 152 mm
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Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Volume III David Parrott
- 1. The legacy of the nomadic empires Beatrice F. Manz
- 2. Ming conflicts with her neighbors, 1368–1644
- 3. Ottoman wars and military transformation, 1453–1826 Gábor Ágoston
- 4. Spain's wars and the rise of the Hispanic world empires, 1516–1828 Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- 5. Wars of the European continent, 1500–1650 James D. Tracy
- 6. The evolution of naval warfare, 1450–1650 Niccolò Capponi
- 7. Military finance, organisation, and state development, 1450–1650 Peter H. Wilson
- 8. Fortification and siege warfare Simon Pepper
- 9. European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450–1850 Louis Sicking
- 10. Conflict in North-Eastern Europe and the emergence of Russia to 1721 Kira B. Stevens
- 11.The military in Safavid Iran, 1501–1736 Rudolf Matthee
- 12. Wars of dynasties, wars of empires: The nature of European conflicts, 1648–1792 Hamish Scott
- 13. The standing army: France and Brandenburg-Prussia – A comparison, 1648–1789 Bernhard R. Kroener
- 14. Navies, technology, and organisation, 1648–1815 Robin Briggs
- 15. Warfare in early modern Africa, c. 1450–c. 1850 Richard Reid
- 16. Warfare in India, 1450–1850 Kaushik Roy
- 17. Japan and Korea, 1450–1850 Eugene Y. Park
- 18. Warfare in South-East Asia, 1448–1851 Michael Charney
- 19. War in the era of Qing imperial consolidation and expansion, 1587–1804 Pamela Crossley
- 20. The seventh continent: Russian territorial expansion, 1450–1850 David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
- 21. The maintenance of Hispanic dominance in Latin America Gabriel Paquette
- 22. The United States from Independence to the war with Mexico, 1776–1848 Kevin D. McCranie
- 23. The wars of the French Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1789–1815 Alan Forrest
- 24. European sea power and the origins of European domination, 1800–1850 Andrew Lambert
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
