This book presents a collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern period. It also considers the nature and role of technological change, and the relationship between military developments and state-building.
Notes on Contributors Preface -- 1 Introduction /Jeremy Black -- 2 Warfare at sea 1450-1815 /Jan Glete -- 3 Warfare in Japan 1467-1600 /Paul Varley -- 4 War and warfare in China 1450-1815 /Peter Lorge -- 5 Warhorse and gunpowder in India c. 1000-1850 /Jos Gommans -- 6 Warfare, slave trading and European influence: Atlantic Africa 1450-1800 /John Thornton -- 7 Ottoman war and warfare 1453-1812 /Virginia Aksan -- 8 European warfare 1450-1815 /Peter Wilson -- 9 War, politics and the conquest of Mexico /Ross Hassig -- 10 European-Native American warfare in North America 1513-1815 /Armstrong Starkey -- Index.
