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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West

1996; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 75; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/20047510

2327-7793

Eliot A. Cohen, Geoffrey Parker,

Historical and Architectural Studies

Introduction Geoffrey Parker Part I. The Age of Massed Infantry: 1. Genesis of the Infantry (600-350 BC) Victor Davis Hanson 2. From Phalanx to Legion (350-250 BC) 3. The Roman way of war (250 BC-AD 300) Part II. The Age of Stone Fortifications: 4. On Roman ramparts (300-1300) Bernard Bachrach 5. New weapons, new tactics (1300-1500) Christopher Allmand 6. The gunpowder revolution (1300-1500) Geoffrey Parker Part III. The Age of Guns and Sails: 7. Ships of the line (1500-1650) Geoffrey Parker 8. Conquest of the Americas (1500-1650) Patricia Seed 9. Dynastic war (1494-1660) Geoffrey Parker 10. States in conflict (1661-1763) John A. Lynn 11. Nations in arms (1763-1815) John A Lynn Part IV. The Age of Mechanized Warfare Williamson A. Murray: 12. The industrialization of war (1815-71) 13. Towards World War (1871-1914) 14. The West at War (1914-18) 15. The world in conflict (1919-41) 16. The World at War (1941-45) 17. The Post-War World (1945-1995) Epilogue: the future of western warfare Geoffrey Parker.