Warfare in the Western World Military Operations from 1600 to 1871, Volume I

by Doughty, Robert; Gruber, Ira; Flint, Roy; Grimsley, Mark; Herring, George

• ISBN13: 9780669209396
• ISBN10: 0669209392
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-01-02
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Authoritative and concise, Warfare in the Western World concentrates on selected campaigns and battles, showing how political and military leaders in the West have used armies to wage war effectively over the last four centuries. The text moves through the centuries, discussing how operational developments and technological improvements eventually led to the concept of total war, first approached in the American Civil War and culminating in the twentieth century's two world wars.

Table of Contents

Part I The Age of Limited War	1	(170)
Gustavus Adolphus and the Military Revolution	3	(26)
Toward Limited War in Europe, 1648--1714	29	(34)
Limited War in Western Europe, 1714--1763	63	(40)
Anglo-American Warfare, 1607--1763: The Emergence of the People in Arms	103	(28)
The War for American Independence, 1775--1783: The People at War	131	(40)
Part II The Nation in Arms and National Warfare	171	(126)
Revolution in Warfare During the Age of the French Revolution	173	(22)
The Rise of Napoleonic Warfare: Increasing the Scale, Speed, and Decisiveness of Warfare	195	(42)
The Limits of Napoleonic Warfare	237	(28)
Breaking Napoleon's Power: Warfare on a New Scale	265	(32)
Part III Professionalism, Industrialization, and Mass Warfare in the Nineteenth Century	297	(164)
American Military Policy, 1783--1860: The Beginnings of Professionalism	299	(32)
The Civil War, 1861--1862: The Lethal Face of Battle	331	(28)
The Civil War, 1862: Ending the Limited War	359	(32)
The Civil War, 1863: Moving Democracies Toward Total War	391	(36)
The Civil War, 1864--1865: Total War	427	(34)
The Transition from Napoleonic Methods to the Prussian Military System, 1815--1871	461