Overview
Main description
Designed for use at the college level as a textbook for military history courses or supplemental reading for world history courses, this text offers an introduction and original synthesis of global military history. Each chapter traces key developments in military institutions and practices set in three crucial contexts: politics and institutions; social structures and economics; and cultures. Primary sources throughout the text give students a look at the writings historians use to draw conclusions, while Issue Boxes raise and explore historiographical controversies in military history. A two-volume format follows the usual division of world and western civilization courses and allows a standard semester split of military history survey courses. Volume One covers 2000 BC through 1500 AD. Volume Two covers the dawn of global warfare in 1500 through the present.
Table of contents
Part I. The Ancient World, 2000 BCE - 400 CE Chapter 1. Bronze and Chariots, 10,000-600 BCE Chapter 2. Empires, Elephants, and Ideologies: Asia, 800 BCE - 200 CE Chapter 3. Polis and Phalanx: Greeks and Macedonians, 800-200 BCE Chapter 4. Empire and Legion: Rome, 500 BCE - 400 CE Chapter 5. Oars and Rams: Ancient Naval Warfare to 400 CE Part I Commentary Part II. The Age of Migration and Invasion, 400-1100 Chapter 6. The Nomadic World: Central Asia to 1100 Chapter 7. Chiefs and Warbands: Western Europe, 400-1100 Chapter 8. Cataphracts and Caliphs: The Middle East, 400-1100 Chapter 9. From Cavalry to Conscripts: China, 400-1100 Chapter 10. Predators and Police: Naval Warfare, 400-1100Part II Commentary Part III. The Age of Traditions in Conflict, 1100-1500 Chapter 11. Cross and Crescent: The Middle East, 1100-1450 Chapter 12. Knights, Castles, and Kings: Western Europe, 1050-1500 Chapter 13. Khans and Conquest: The Mongols, 1150-1400 Chapter 14. Scholars, Samurai, and Sultans: Asia, 1100-1500 Chapter 15. Mariners and Merchants: Naval Warfare, 1100-1571 Part III Commentary
