Warfare and Society in Europe

This book looks at both famous and lesser-known evidence for European Neolithic Warfare

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

This book offers a major new analysis of how peace and security can be maintained in Europe and provides a radical vision of a technology-enabling ...

The Napoleonic Wars gripped Europe, and beyond, for over ten years at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. Hundreds of battles were fought betw...

On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense destru...

First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Euro...

The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did n...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...

Historian M. B. Synge narrates how naval power grew in importance from the 1700s onward, playing a decisive role in the victories of several nation...

The battlefield of 17th Century Europe On land, the Thirty Years War was fought primarily in Germany. It was one of the most destructive conflicts ...

Reducere. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens...

A source of enduring fascination, the Vikings are the most famous raiders of medieval Europe. Despite the exciting and compelling descriptions in t...

Andrew Feinstein, former member of the African National Congress, investigates the secretive world of the global arms trade in his gripping new boo...

Reducere. In this richly illustrated guide, author Konstantin Nossov masterfully analyzes and recreates the weaponry, tactics, and stratagems of the ancient ...

Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest schol...

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

Vikings have a colorful history that directly affects the world today. The Viking's legacy made a big impact on several places in history which hav...

DescriptionThe Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of ...

Reducere. Premodern weapons of war receive a tremendously detailed and thorough accounting in this volume -- the work of a noted authority on medieval arms i...

DescriptionWhen the world held its breath ...It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 194...

When the world held its breath ... It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944--long be...

The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoe...