Military History

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....

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected fro...

The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the b...

First published in 1999, this edition of Walter the Chancellors account of the wars of the Antiochenes against the Muslims in the early twelfth cen...

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the centur...

This book was published in 2003. Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age, whose exploits brought him fame a...

The studies here reflect Jonathan Riley-Smith's work as a historian, which began with research on the history of the military orders, the specific ...

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, a...

Freedom fighters. Guerilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this c...

How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process? In Ghosts of W...

Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A coll...

This illuminating book examines how the public funerals of major figures from the Civil War era shaped public memories of the war and allowed a div...

Arnhem - it was the last major battle lost by the British Army, lost not by the men who fought there but by the overconfidence of generals, faulty ...

Examines NATO's Balkan interventions over the entire decade starting with the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992. Focusing on the wars in Bosnia and Ko...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

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

First published in 1898, this history of medieval warfare, written by one of the great medievalists of his time, Sir Charles Oman, remains for stud...