Contents	6
	Dedication	7
	Contributors notes	8
	Preface	10
	Chapter One Introduction	12
	The rise of the West	12
	Technological change	15
	Military developments and state-building	27
	Notes	31
	Further reading	33
	General	33
	Important works not covered in other lists include	34
	Chapter Two Warfare at sea 1450–1815	36
	Maritime trade, state formation and warfare at sea	36
	A Eurocentric form of warfare	39
	Constraints on early modern naval warfare: climate, human endurance and technology	42
	Changing frameworks and maritime expansion: warfare at sea, 1450–1650	45
	Bureaucratic battle fleets: warfare at sea, 1650–1720	52
	Oceanic and continental power struggles: warfare at sea, 1720–1815	56
	Further reading	60
	Chapter Three Warfare in Japan 1467–1600	64
	Notes	94
	Further reading	97
	Chapter Four War and warfare in China 1450–1815	98
	The Battle of Tumu to the death of Hideyoshi	99
	The rise of Nurhaci and the Liaodong campaign	103
	The Qing conquest	105
	Yongzheng and Qianlong’s reigns	110
	Conclusion	111
	Notes	112
	Further Reading	113
	Chapter Five Warhorse and gunpowder in India1 c. 1000–1850	116
	Introduction	116
	The inner frontier	117
	Fitna	119
	The horse-warrior revolution (1000–1200)	120
	Sieges and forts (1200–1400)	122
	The false dawn of gunpowder (1400–1750)	124
	The gunpowder revolution (1750–1850)	128
	Conclusion	130
	Notes	131
	Further reading	135
	General	135
	Elephants and horses	136
	Gunpowder	136
	Fortification and sieges	136
	The military labour market	137
	Regional developments	137
	East India Company	137
	Chapter Six Warfare, slave trading and European influence: Atlantic Africa 1450–1800	140
	The geographical background	142
	The art of war in sixteenth century Africa	143
	Europeans in African war	145
	War and the slave trade	149
	Notes	153
	Further reading	157
	Chapter Seven Ottoman war and warfare 1453–1812	158
	Introduction	158
	The formative period 1300–1453	160
	The imperial age 1453–1566	163
	The limits of empire 1566–1699	168
	The compromise 1699–1812	175
	Notes	181
	Further reading	183
	General	183
	1300–1453: the formative period	184
	1453–1566: the imperial age	184
	1566–1699: the limits of empire	185
	1699–1812: the compromise	185
	Chapter Eight European warfare 1450–1815	188
	1450–1530	190
	1530–1660	199
	1660–1720	206
	1720–89	210
	1789–1815	212
	Notes	214
	Further reading	215
	Chapter Nine War, politics and the conquest of Mexico	218
	Cortés and the conquest of Mexico1	218
	Explaining the conquest	224
	Reinterpreting the conquest	225
	Notes	236
	Further reading	245
	Chapter Ten European—Native American warfare in North America, 1513–1815	248
	Notes	267
	Further reading	270
	Index	274
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