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In this up-to-date account of European warfare since 1815, important treatments of major conflicts - especially World Wars I and II - are combined with insightful analyses of military developments and of their wider political and social contexts. European imperial warfare also receives due attention. European Warfare 1815-2000 recognises war as a topic of major importance in understanding the development of the modern world, particularly Europe. The contributors, all leading experts in their fields, are open to theoretical developments in the subject, but also understand the difficulty of 'fitting' war to any abstract model. Ranging up to the present, this is an original and fascinating volume

"Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfare from the eighteenth century to the present. The book engages with the social, cultural, political and economic contexts of war, examining the causes and consequences of conflict beyond national and chronological boundaries. It challenges the dominant Western-centric, technologically focused view of military history and instead emphasises the ranges of circumstances faced by both Western and non-Western powers and the absence of any one direction of development. The chapters present integrated discussions of land, naval and air conflicts, addressing continuities and the ways in which common experiences affected different spheres. This edition revises the text throughout, has increased focus on the developments in the 2000s and 2010s, and adds a new chapter on the 2020s. Supported by a variety of illustrations, maps and case studies, this study is a valuable resource for students of military history and general readers alike"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Notes -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Definitions -- Slavery and Racism -- Slavery and Serfdom -- Slavery and the "Other" -- The Range of African Slave Trades -- The Western Quest for Labor Control -- The Origins of Western Expansion into Africa -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Beginnings of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- Spain and Portugal -- Labor Supply in the Americas -- African Slaves -- Demand -- Supply -- The English Enter the Picture -- Ships and Maps -- Conclusions: Race and Trade -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Slave Trade Expands Greatly -- Plantation Crops -- The South Atlantic -- The West Indies -- West Africa -- International Competition -- The English Role -- The Situation in Africa -- The Nature of "Cooperation" -- Trauma and Pain -- Toward a Black America -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Slave Trade at its Height -- Selling to Others -- The French Trade -- Plantation Goods -- Conflicts over the Atlantic Trade -- The Portuguese Slave Economy -- Slavery and International Finance -- Brazil and Angola -- Spanish America -- The British Slave Trade -- Developments in Africa -- Resistance -- Slave Life -- Racism -- The American Revolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Abolitionism -- Denmark -- Britain -- France -- Britain -- Banning the Trade -- Pressing Powers to End the Trade -- The Continuing Slave Trade -- America -- Britain and Latin America -- The British Navy Attacks the Slave Trade -- Pressure on Africa -- The Fate of Slavery -- Slavery Ends in the British Empire -- Slavery Ends in France -- Slavery Ends in America -- Slavery Ends in Brazil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: After Slavery? -- The Situation in the Former Colonies -- Impact on Africa -- States for Former Slaves -- Abolishing Slavery.-- 7. Conclusions -- Selected Further Reading -- Index.

Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has changed significantly in a very short period. If current trends continue, we may be witnessing a tectonic realignment unseen in more than a century. In 1904, Halford Mackinder delivered a seminal lecture entitled "The Geographical Pivot of History" to a packed house at the Royal Geographical Society in London about the historic changes then taking place on the world stage. Britain was the great power of that historical moment, but its political, military, and economic primacy was under serious challenge from the United States, Germany, and Russia. Mackinder predicted that the "heartland" of Eastern Europe held the key to global hegemony and that the struggle for control over this region would be the next great conflict. Ten years later, when an assassin's bullet in Sarajevo launched the world into a calamitous war, Mackinder's analysis proved prescient. As esteemed historian Jeremy Black argues in this timely new volume, the 2020s may be history's next great pivot point. The continued volatility of the global system in the wake of a deadly pandemic exacerbates these pressures. At the same time, the American public remains divided by the question of engagement with the outside world, testing the limits of US postwar hegemony. The time has come for a reconsideration of the 120 years from Mackinder's lecture to now, as well as geopolitics of the present and of the future.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Half Title -- Series Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis -- 2 Some Considerations Relating to Property Rights in Man -- 3 The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis -- 4 The Inter-Atlantic Paradigm: The Failure of Spanish Medieval Colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands -- 5 Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: The Matter of Bitu -- 6 Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa -- 7 Slaves and Society in Western Africa, c. 1445-c. 1700 -- 8 Estimating Aboriginal American Population: An Appraisal of Techniques with a New Hemispheric Estimate -- 9 The Indian Population of North America in 1492 -- 10 The Tanios of Hispaniola: The Island's First Inhabitants -- 11 Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil -- 12 Cultural Change and Military Resistance in Araucanian Chile, 1550-1730 -- 13 From Indian to Slave: Forced Native Labour and Colonial Society in São Paulo During the Seventeenth Century -- 14 Iberian Expansion and the Issue of Black Slavery: Changing Portuguese Attitudes, 1440-1770 -- 15 English Trade with the Portuguese Empire in West Africa 1581-1629 -- 16 Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Proto-Missionaries: Sierra Leone 1568 and 1582 -- 17 From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas -- Name Index.

This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Working beyond traditional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Unlike other studies that begin with the American and French revolutions, this book reaches back to antiquity to trace the pre-modern origins of war. Interweaving thematic and chronological narratives, Black probes the enduring linkages between beliefs, events, and people on the one hand and changes over time on the other hand. He shows the extent to which politics, technologies, and ideologies have evolved, creating new parameters and paradigms that have framed both governmental and public views.Tracing insurgencies ranging from China to Africa to Latin America, Black highlights the widely differing military and political dimensions of each conflict. He weighs how, and why, lessons were learned or, rather, asserted, in both insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare. At every stage, he considers lessons learned by contemporaries, the ways in which norms developed within militaries and societies, and their impact on doctrine and policy. His sweeping study of insurrectionary warfare and its counterinsurgency counterpart will be essential reading for all students of military history

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade -- 2 African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 3 "Here is No Resisting the Country": The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African "Slave Coast -- 4 Hunting for Rents: The Economics of Slaving in Pre-Colonial Africa -- 5 Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas -- 6 The French Slave Trade: An Overview -- 7 The Economic Origins of Black Slavery in the British West Indies, 1640-1680: A Tentative Analysis of the Barbados Model -- 8 The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630-1680 -- 9 Trade, Plunder, and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655-89 -- 10 Who Bought Slaves in Early America? Purchasers of Slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica, 1674-1708 -- 11 "To Procure Negroes": The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627-60 -- 12 "The Countrie Continues Sicklie": White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780 -- 13 The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1650-1832 -- 14 The Influence of Disease on Race, Logistics and Colonization in the Antilles -- 15 The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834 -- 16 The First American Boom: Virginia 1618 to 1630 -- 17 From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System -- 18 The Tobacco Industry in the Chesapeake Colonies, 1617-1730: An Interpretation -- 19 The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia -- 20 The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700-1810: New Estimates of Volume and Distribution -- 2 Prices of Slaves in West and West-Central Africa: Toward an Annual Series, 1698-1807 -- 3 King Agaja of Dahomey, the Slave Trade, and the Question of West African Plantations: The Embassy of Bulfinch Lambe and Adomo Tomo to England, 1726-32 -- 4 Whitehaven and the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade -- 5 The Commercial and Financial Organization of the British Slave Trade, 1750-1807 -- 6 Market Structure and the Profits of the British African Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century -- 7 Profitability of the British Trade in Slaves Once Again -- 8 Productivity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- 9 Evidence on English/African Terms of Trade in the Eighteenth Century -- 10 Characteristics of British Slaving Vessels, 1698-1775 -- 11 The World an Absentee Planter and His Slaves Made: Sir William Stapleton and His Nevis Sugar Estate, 1722-1740 -- 12 "Prodigious Riches": The Wealth of Jamaica Before the American Revolution -- 13 The Condition of the Slaves in the Settlement and Economic Development of the British Windward Islands, 1763-1775 -- 14 Measuring the French Slave Trade, 1713-1792/3 -- 15 The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century: A Quantitative Study -- 16 Profitability of Slave and Long-Distance Trading in Context: The Case of Eighteenth-Century France -- 17 A Reassessment of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade -- 18 The History of the Danish Negro Slave Trade, 1733-1807 -- 19 Worlds Apart: Africans' Encounters and Africa's Encounters with the Atlantic in Angola, Before 1800.

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. A Summary Biography -- 2. Dramas -- 3. Politics and the Press -- 4. London Settings -- 5. Travel and Travellers -- 6. The Rural World -- 7. Women and Families -- 8. Society -- 9. Religion -- 10. Into Novels -- 11. The Magisterial Fielding -- 12. Novels Anew -- 13. Conclusions -- Selected Further Reading -- Index.