5. The Pre-Revolutionary Eighteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustration Credits viii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Gibbonian Strategies 3
8. 3. Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Expansion and Warfare 18
9. 4. The Seventeenth Century 60
10. 5. The Pre-Revolutionary Eighteenth Century 96
11. 6. An Age of Revolution and Imperial Reach, 1 775-1815 129
12. 7. The Nineteenth Century 164
13. 8. Warfare and the State, 1450-1900 203
14. 9. Twentieth-Century Reflections 232
15. Notes 292
16. Index 321