Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare)

Name: Warfare in the Eighteenth Century (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
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ISBN: 9780060851231

ISBN-10: 0060851236

ISBN-13: 9780060851231

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Authors: Jeremy Black

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Worldwide warfare might seem like a twentieth-century development, but the colonial empires of Europe fought wars around the globe in the eighteenth. With domains spreading to the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean to Asia, a great power such as France could find itself fighting simultaneously against England's Hanoverian king in northern Germany, in the waters of the English Channel, and on the grounds of what became Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeremy Black explains not just the wheres and whys of those wars, but also the hows. The Age of Enlightenment on the battlefield. Diversity of tactics and weapons used around the globe. After the death of Louis XIV, French hegemony yielded…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Map list


Chronology


Introduction: Warfare in the Eighteenth Century


War without Europeans


Europeans versus Non-Europeans


Transoceanic Conflict between Europeans


The American War of Independence


Naval Warfare


War within Europe


The Coming of Revolution


Conclusion: The World Picture


Some leading commanders


Further reading


Index


Picture credits