SALE The Cambridge History of War Volume 3: War and the Early Modern World
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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.
- 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
This book is unused and unread. It has some cosmetic imperfections such as scuffing, creasing or fading.
This book cannot be discounted further and it may be stamped 'damaged'.
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.
- 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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This book is unused and unread. It has some cosmetic imperfections such as scuffing, creasing or fading.
This book cannot be discounted further and it may be stamped 'damaged'.
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.
- 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
