Jeremy Black

War in the Eighteenth-Century World (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230370005
• Artikelnr.: 47860248

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Introduction.- 1700-20.- 1720-40.- 1740-60.- 1760-80.- 1780-1800.- Naval Capability and Warfare.- War and Society.- Conclusions .- Selected Further Reading.- List of Abbreviations.- Notes.- Index.