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Cambridge History of Warfare » (1st Edition)

Authors: Geoffrey Parker
ISBN-13: 9780521618953, ISBN-10: 0521618959
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at Ohio State University.

A detailed account of war in the West from antiquity to the present.

	Introduction : the Western way of war	1
1	Genesis of the infantry 600-350 B.C.	15
2	From phalanx to legion 350-250 B.C.	30
3	The Roman way of war 250 B.C.-A.D. 300	46
4	On Roman ramparts 300-1300	61
5	New weapons, new tactics 1300-1500	84
6	The gunpowder revolution 1300-1500	101
7	Ships of the line 1500-1650	117
8	The conquest of the Americas 1500-1650	131
9	Dynastic war 1494-1660	148
10	States in conflict 1661-1763	167
11	Nations in arms 1763-1815	189
12	The industrialization of war 1815-1871	219
13	Towards World War 1871-1914	249
14	The West at war 1914-1918	278
15	The world in conflict 1919-1941	314
16	The world at war 1941-1945	338
17	The post-war world 1945-2004	362
	Epilogue : the future of Western warfare	413