International Library of Essays on Military History

Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450-1660

The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war - often described as a 'military revolution' - during the period between 1450 and 1660.

About the Author
Paul E.J. Hammer has published extensively on Elizabethan politics and political culture, as well as on Tudor England and the waging of war. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK.

Hardcover: 468 pages
Publisher: Ashgate; (28 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 075462529X
ISBN-13: 978-0754625292

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Warfare in Europe 1650-1792

Scholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 1650-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more consequential for military development. This collection of essays sets out to address this problem, probing the nature of warfare in Europe from the middle of the 17th century to the 18th.

Hardcover: 561 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited; (24 Jun 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754624641
ISBN-13: 978-0754624646

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Warfare in Europe 1792-1815

This collection of essays provides a broad strategic interpretation of European warfare from 1792-1815. Unlike traditional military histories which focus on a revolution in military affairs from the French view, this volume offers a general European perspective, placing the armies and the wars in historical context, while addressing substantive changes to respective military systems.

About the Author
Frederick C. Schneid is Professor in the Department of History at High Point University, USA.

Hardcover: 542 pages
Publisher: Ashgate (21 Sep 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754624714
ISBN-13: 978-0754624714

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Warfare in Europe 1815-1914

The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian and German unification divide this century in two. In the first half, armies struggled to emerge from the shadow of Napoleon amidst an era of financial retrenchment, political unrest and accelerating technological change. The mid-century wars left an equally problematic legacy, including aspects that pointed towards 'total war'. The 26 essays in this volume examine these changes from a variety of innovative and fresh perspectives.

About the Author
Peter H.Wilson is Professor of History at the University of Sunderland, UK.

Hardcover: 534 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited; illustrated edition edition (28 April 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754624781
ISBN-13: 978-0754624783

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World War I

Once-dominant images of the First World War as a futile contest fought by innocent soldiers and wasteful generals have given way to more sophisticated scholarly analyses. This volume presents some of the most innovative work of this new generation of research on the War to End All Wars. Taking a global and comparative perspective, these essays place the War in a wide global and thematic context, greatly enhancing our understanding of one of the most important and complex events of the 20th Century.

About the Author
Michael Neiberg is Professor of History and Director of the Center for War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.

Hardcover: 604 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited; (28 Sep 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754624773
ISBN-13: 978-0754624776

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Warfare in Europe 1919-1938

Although ostensibly a time of peace, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in military history falls between the two world wars. With good reason, even today military theorists look to these years for relevant lessons. The articles and papers collected together in this volume highlight the major themes and developments of interwar military affairs in Europe, including the new doctrines of tank warfare, air power, German "Blitzkrieg", and Soviet operational art. They also demonstrate the important place of the major armed conflicts of the period, such as the Russian and Spanish Civil Wars, in European history.

About the Author
Geoffrey Jensen is John Biggs '30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History in the Department of History, Virginia Military Institute, USA.

Hardcover: 558 pages
Publisher: Ashgate; 5R edition (18 May 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754625192
ISBN-13: 978-0754625193

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The Second World War

The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intense period of global instability in the twentieth century, was fought by many different states, large and small, over differing periods of time and for many different reasons. In an area where there is no shortage of material to choose from, the articles presented here are distinguished for their depth of scholarship, stylistic elegance and inter-disciplinary confidence.

About the Author
Nick Smart is Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Plymouth, UK, and has been writing on a number of Second World War related themes for some years.

Hardcover: 513 pages
Publisher: Ashgate; (20 Nov 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0754625915
ISBN-13: 978-0754625919

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The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II (Diplomacy & Statecraft)

This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.

Most of the works on the crises of the 1930s and especially the Munich Agreement in 1938 were written when it was virtually impossible to gain access to the relevant archive collections on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (30 Nov 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0714649953
ISBN-13: 978-0714649955

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