War in the eighteenth-century world / Jeremy Black
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Descript
xii, 264 p. ; 22 cm
SUMMARY
Placing eighteenth-century warfare in a truly global context, Jeremy Black challenges conventional accounts and offers a reappraisal of debates in Western and Asian history. This concise, up-to-date survey assumes little prior knowledge and provides cutting-edge historical insights into a crucial period of world history. -- From publisher's web site
CONTENT
Introduction -- 1700-1720 -- 1720-1740 -- 1740-1760 -- 1760-1780 -- 1780-1800 -- Naval capability and warfare -- War and society -- Conclusions