A short history of war / Jeremy Black. (Text)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Origins of Conflict -- 2. War and Early States -- 3. Egypt, Assyria, Persia -- 4. Early Chinese Warfare -- 5. Greece and Macedon -- 6. Indian Warfare -- 7. Rome and Hannibal -- 8. Imperial Rome and Its Fall -- 9. The 'Dark Ages' -- 10. Feudal Warfare -- 11. Castles -- 12. The Crusades -- 13. The Mongols and Timur -- 14. Early Japanese Warfare -- 15. Warfare in the New World to 1500 -- 16. African Warfare -- 17. Australasian and Oceanic Warfare -- 18. Gunpowder on Land -- 19. The New-style Fortress -- 20. Naval Reach Transforms the World, 1400-1763 -- 21. The Place of Battle -- 22. The Ottoman Powerhouse -- 23. Japan and China Clash -- 24. The Age of Fighting Sail, 1588-1827 -- 25. China, Russia and the End of the Steppe -- 26. The Collapse of European Control in the New World, 1775-1825 -- 27. Napoleonic Warfare -- 28. Wars within the West, 1816-1913 -- 29. Nineteenth-century Imperialism -- 30. China from Crisis to Consolidation, 1839-1949 -- 31. World War One -- 32. The Interwar Years -- 33. World War Two -- 34. The Cold War -- 35. Wars of Decolonisation -- 36. Conflict Since the Cold War -- 37. War Today -- 38. The Confrontations of Major Powers -- 39. Theorists of Military History -- Conclusions.