Military History

Against the background of its problematic human-rights record and the military regime's continued extra-constitutional rule, Myanmar has faced moun...

Within the span of a generation, Nazi Germanys former capital, Berlin, found a new role as a symbol of freedom and resilient democracy in the Cold ...

Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention,...

This volume celebrates Peter Edburys career by bringing together seventeen essays by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on three o...

From the first interactions between European and native peoples to the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, military issues have always played...

First published in 1904, this volume began what was to be the magnum opus of the highly regarded Classical scholar, A.H.J. Greenidge. Though publis...

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that ...

Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, du...

Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an ens...

Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age, whose exploits brought him fame and notoriety throughout Europe. ...

Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked ...

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against th...

Published in 1999. On the basis of leading theoretical work on civil-military relations, the authors elaborate their own model, emphasising the con...

The Wendish Crusade of 1147, one of the Northern Crusades and a part of the Second Crusade, took place at a critical phase in the evolution of crus...

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War-a personal war waged by ...

Originally published in 1933, and written by Americas historian, James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American natio...

During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at ...

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic'...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like sea power derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive b...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

1927. CHINA IS IN TURMOIL.The Communist Party and the Kuomintang government, long at each others throats, are now locked into a conflict set to cla...

This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level i...

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 cons...

This volume discusses the relationship between economics, geopolitics and regional institutional growth and development in the Asia-Pacific region....