This volume provides a comprehensive and accessible history of war from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the development of steam-powered, ironclad warships in the mid-19th century. It is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the history of war, transnational and global history, and international relations.
Volume 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.
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A four-hundred-year global perspective on the history of war from nomadic cavalry to steam-powered warships.
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,
13681644;
3. Ottoman wars and military transformation, 14531826 Gábor
Ágoston;
4. Spain's wars and the rise of the Hispanic world empires,
15161828 Felipe Fernández-Armesto;
5. Wars of the European continent,
15001650 James D. Tracy;
6. The evolution of naval warfare, 14501650
Niccolò Capponi;
7. Military finance, organisation, and state development,
14501650 Peter H. Wilson;
8. Fortification and siege warfare Simon Pepper;
9. European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 14501850 Louis
Sicking;
10. Conflict in North-Eastern Europe and the emergence of Russia to
1721 Kira B. Stevens; 11.The military in Safavid Iran, 15011736 Rudolf
Matthee;
12. Wars of dynasties, wars of empires: The nature of European
conflicts, 16481792 Hamish Scott;
13. The standing army: France and
Brandenburg-Prussia A comparison, 16481789 Bernhard R. Kroener;
14.
Navies, technology, and organisation, 16481815 Robin Briggs;
15. Warfare in
early modern Africa, c. 1450c. 1850 Richard Reid;
16. Warfare in India,
14501850 Kaushik Roy;
17. Japan and Korea, 14501850 Eugene Y. Park;
18.
Warfare in South-East Asia, 14481851 Michael Charney;
19. War in the era of
Qing imperial consolidation and expansion, 15871804 Pamela Crossley;
20. The
seventh continent: Russian territorial expansion, 14501850 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, 17761848 Kevin D. McCranie;
23. The wars of the French
Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 17891815 Alan Forrest;
24. European sea
power and the origins of European domination, 18001850 Andrew Lambert;
Select Bibliography; Index.
David Parrott is Professor of Early Modern European History, and Fellow and Tutor at New College, University of Oxford. His books include Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 162442 (2001), The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe (2012), and 1652: The Cardinal, the Prince and the Crisis of the Fronde (2020). Gábor Ágoston is Professor of History at Georgetown University. His works include the Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (2009), Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire (2005) and The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe (2021).
