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- English
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Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792- 1914
About this book
Combining original research with the latest scholarship Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of the First World War. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and political phenomenon no less than a military and technologial one, and includes discussions on:
* The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars
* Napoleon III and the militarization of Europe
* Bismark, Molkte, and the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71
* new technologies and weapons
* seapower, imperialism and naval warfare
* the origins and outbreak of the First World War.
For anyone studying, or with in interest in European warfare, this book details the evolution of land and naval warfare and highlights the swirling interplay of society, politics and military decision making.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- MAPS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE: NAPOLEON AND THE ROAD TO WATERLOO
- CHAPTER TWO: RESTORATION AND REVOLUTION, 1815–49
- CHAPTER THREE: NAPOLEON III AND THE MILITARIZATION OF EUROPE, 1848–66
- CHAPTER FOUR: THE RISE OF PRUSSIA AND ITALY, 1861–6
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR OF 1870–1
- CHAPTER SIX: NEW WEAPONS AND THE ‘NEW IMPERIALISM’, 1877–1905
- CHAPTER SEVEN: SEA POWER AND POPULAR NAVALISM, 1890–1914
- CHAPTER EIGHT: WAR PLANS AND ARMAMENTS: THE DEADLY SPIRAL, 1911–14
- CHAPTER NINE: THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR I IN 1914
- BIBLIOGRAPHY