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  • The Italian Wars 1494-1559 outlines the major impact that these wars had not j... The Italian Wars 1494-1559 outlines the major impact that these wars had not just on the history of Italy but on the history of Europe as a whole. It provides the first detailed account of the entire course of the wars covering all the campaigns and... more
  • The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as ... The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the... more
  • The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict co... The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of... more
  • The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict co... The Element analyses the critical importance of elite women to the conflict conventionally known as the Italian Wars that engulfed much of Europe and the Mediterranean between 1494 and 1559. Through its considered attention to the interventions of... more
  • The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as ... The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the... more
  • This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important s... This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought for control of the Baltic and Northeastern Europe during the period 1558-1721. It is the first comprehensive history which considers the revolution in... more
  • The fifth and final volume in the author s sweeping study of the political eco... The fifth and final volume in the author s sweeping study of the political economy of American warfare. Describes the bipolar world that developed from the rivalry between the U.S. and USSR and shows how seventy years of defense spending have bred a... more
  • The first of two volumes in Bruce Lenman s hugely ambitious study explores thr... The first of two volumes in Bruce Lenman s hugely ambitious study explores three interacting themes: the growth of England s sprawling colonial empire; its military dimension; and the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. more
  • First published in 1995 to great critical acclaim The Wars of Napoleon provide... First published in 1995 to great critical acclaim The Wars of Napoleon provides students with a comprehensive survey of the Napoleonic Wars around the central theme of the scale of French military power and its impact on other European states from... more
  • Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large t... Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty in 1911 through anarchy civil war and invasion to the final triumph of... more
  • The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945... The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force... more
  • Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to t... Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsurgs: soon Austria Prussia France... more
  • From Europe to India and America Britain s Colonial Wars relates empire to the... From Europe to India and America Britain s Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution the modern British state... more
  • The French Wars of Religion tore the country apart for almost fifty years. The... The French Wars of Religion tore the country apart for almost fifty years. They were also part of the wider religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants which raged across Europe during the 16th century. This new study by a major authority... more
  • Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king Louis XIV. For forty years f... Warfare dominated the long reign of the `Sun-king Louis XIV. For forty years from 1672 France was continuously at war and had one of the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. The campaigns secured little territory but... more
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