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The patterns of war through the eighteenth century

A history of war and warfare from ancient to early modern times, this book completes his survey of the patterns of war in the Western world. It explains not only what happened in warfare but why war in a certain time and culture took on distinct and recognizable patterns.
Print Book, English, ©1990
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1990
History
xii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780253301314, 9780253205513, 0253301319, 0253205514
19672195
Ancient warfare before the age of Rome
War in the age of Rome
War in the Middle Ages
Early modern land warfare, 1494-1721
War under sail and European overseas expanson to 1725
Patterns of neoclassical war, 1725-1789