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The Cambridge History of Strategy

The Cambridge History of Strategy

Volume 1. From Antiquity to the American War of Independence

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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser, Peter Lorge, John Hyland, Roel Konijnendijk, Andrew Fear, Louis Rawlings, David Graff, Michael Whitby, Kaushik Roy, Katarzyna Maksymiuk, Mehdi Kurgan Kader, Georgios Chatzelis, John France, Sophie Therese Ambler, Timothy May, Tassapa Umavijani, Patricia M. Lambert, Mesut Uyar, Giacomo Macola, John Burton Kegel, Pratyay Nath, Kenneth Swope, David Parrott, Andri van Vliet, Jamel Ostwald, Stephen Conway, Adam Storring
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  • Publication planned for: January 2025
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  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108479950

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  • Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world. Drawing on material evidence covering two-and-a-half millennia, an international team of leading scholars in each subject examines how strategy was formulated and applied and with what tools, from ancient Greece and China to the Ottoman and Mughal Empires and the American Revolutionary War. They explore key themes from decision-makers and strategy-making processes, causes of wars and war aims, tools of strategy in war and peace, to configurations of armed forces and distinctive and shared ways of war across civilisations and periods. A comparative conclusion examines how the linking of political goals with military means took place in different parts of the world over the course of history, asking whether strategic practice has universal features.

    • The first volume in a history of strategy covering the entire world and all of recorded history and more
    • Features twenty-five case studies from ancient Persia to late eighteenth-century America
    • Written by a team of leading subject experts
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    • Publication planned for: January 2025
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108479950
    • length: 634 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
    • availability: Not yet published - available from January 2025
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction to volume I: the practice of strategy Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser
    1. China to 180 CE
    Peter Lorge
    2. Teispid and Achaemenid Persia (c. 550–330 BCE) John Hyland
    3. Ancient Greece: strategy of the city states (500–400 BCE) Roel Konijnendijk
    4. Philip II and Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire Andrew Fear
    5. Ancient Rome before Augustus (753–27 BCE) Louis Rawlings
    6. China 180–1127 CE David Graff
    7. Ancient Rome: principate and dominate (27 BCE–630 AD) Michael Whitby
    8. The Gupta Empire (400–500 CE) Kaushik Roy
    9. The Sassanian Empire's strategies Katarzyna Maksymiuk
    10. The Rashidun (632–661), Umayyad (661–750) and Abbasid (750–1258) Caliphates Mehdi Kurgan Kader
    11. Byzantine strategy (630–1204 CE) Georgios Chatzelis
    12. Strategies in the wars of western Europe, 476–c. 1000 John France
    13. The later Middle Ages Sophie Therese Ambler
    14. Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire 1206–1368 CE Timothy May
    15. Hindu and Buddhist polities of pre/early-modern mainland southeast Asia (1100–1800) Tassapa Umavijani
    16. Pre-Columbian Native American wars Patricia M. Lambert
    17. Ottoman expansionism 1300–1823 Mesut Uyar
    18. Strategy in the wars of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa Giacomo Macola and John Burton Kegel
    19. Strategy/ies of the Mughal Empire Pratyay Nath
    20. China 1368–1911 Kenneth Swope
    21. Early modern Europe: the Habsburgs and their enemies, 1519–1659 David Parrott
    22. Naval strategies Andri van Vliet
    23. The strategy of Louis XIV Jamel Ostwald
    24. Hohenzollern strategy under Frederick II Adam Storring
    25. American warfare in the eighteenth century Stephen Conway
    Overview Beatrice Heuser and Isabelle Duyvestey.

  • Editors

    Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Universiteit Leiden
    Isabelle Duyvesteyn is Professor of International Studies/Global History at the Institute of History at Leiden University. Between 2012 and 2017 she held the Special Chair in Strategic Studies at the Political Science Institute of Leiden University. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the national Advisory Council for International Affairs assigned to advise the Netherlands government on issues of peace and security and between 2012 and 2021, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Netherlands Defence Academy.

    Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow
    Beatrice Heuser holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Glasgow, seconded to the General Staff College of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as section chief for Strategy. She has worked at NATO Headquarters as a Consultant. She has served on academic advisory boards of the Royal United Services Institute, the French Institute of International Affairs (IFRI), and the French government's strategic studies think tank IRSEM.

    Contributors

    Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser, Peter Lorge, John Hyland, Roel Konijnendijk, Andrew Fear, Louis Rawlings, David Graff, Michael Whitby, Kaushik Roy, Katarzyna Maksymiuk, Mehdi Kurgan Kader, Georgios Chatzelis, John France, Sophie Therese Ambler, Timothy May, Tassapa Umavijani, Patricia M. Lambert, Mesut Uyar, Giacomo Macola, John Burton Kegel, Pratyay Nath, Kenneth Swope, David Parrott, Andri van Vliet, Jamel Ostwald, Stephen Conway, Adam Storring

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