War and the world : military power and the fate of continents, 1450-2000 /

Main Author: Black, Jeremy, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Gibbonian strategies
  • Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century expansion and warfare
  • The seventeenth century
  • The pre-revolutionary eighteenth century
  • An age of revolution and imperial reach, 1775-1815
  • The nineteenth century
  • Warfare and the state, 1450-1900
  • Twentieth-century reflections.