Acknowledgements1 The Origins of Conflict2 War and Early States3 Egypt, Assyria, Persia4 Early Chinese Warfare5 Greece and Macedon6 Indian Warfare7 Rome and Hannibal8 Imperial Rome and Its Fall9 The `Dark Ages'10 Feudal Warfare11 Castles12 The Crusades13 The Mongols and Timur14 Early Japanese Warfare15 Warfare in the New World to 150016 African Warfare17 Australasian and Oceanic Warfare18 Gunpowder on Land19 The New-style Fortress20 Naval Reach Transforms the World, 1400-176321 The Place of Battle22 The Ottoman Powerhouse23 Japan and China Clash24 The Age of Fighting Sail, 1588-182725 China, Russia and the End of the Steppe26 The Collapse of European Control in the New World27 Napoleonic Warfare28 Wars within the West, 1816-191329 Nineteenth-century Imperialism30 China from Crisis to Consolidation, 1839-194931 World War One32 The Interwar Years: Assessing the Threat33 World War Two34 The Cold War35 Wars of Decolonisation36 Conflict Since the Cold War37 War Today: Confrontations within States38 The Confrontations of Major Powers39 Theorists of Military HistoryConclusionsSelected Further ReadingIndex