[KS] The Cambridge History of War, Volume III: War and the Early Modern World

[Korean Studies]

Dear colleagues,

The following new book may be of interest to anyone seeking a comparative perspective on Chosŏn Korea in the early modern world:

Parrott, David, and Gábor Ágoston, eds. The Cambridge History of War, Volume III: War and the Early Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Hardback (9780521874281). US$180.00.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-war/3434B3FDAC35CD7ED53B0003508CBEDF

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Volume III of The Cambridge History of War covers the early modern world, offering a four-hundred-year perspective from the last Eurasian nomadic empires to the advent of ironclad, steam-driven warships in the mid-nineteenth century. Together, the chapters cover the rise of professional armies and purpose-built warships in Europe; the evolution of military societies in the great Islamic empires; the vicissitudes of Ming and Qing military organization and that of their Asian neighbours; and the raising and maintaining of armies in Africa and the Americas. Numerous processes of imperial expansion, both on land of sea, are examined, as are the processes of global confrontation and interchange across different military systems. Technology, organization, finance, and military cultures are each explored from a broad perspective. Bringing together an impressive team of experts in their fields, the volume provides a comprehensive and accessible history of war from 1450–1850.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of maps
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Volume III / David Parrott
1. The legacy of the nomadic empires / Beatrice F. Manz
2. Ming conflicts with her neighbors, 1368–1644 / Morris Rossabi
3. Ottoman wars and military transformation, 1453–1826 / Gábor Ágoston
4. Spain's wars and the rise of the Hispanic world empires, 1516–1828 / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
5. Wars of the European continent, 1500–1650 / James D. Tracy
6. The evolution of naval warfare, 1450–1650 / Niccolò Capponi
7. Military finance, organisation, and state development, 1450–1650 / Peter H. Wilson
8. Fortification and siege warfare / Simon Pepper
9. European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450–1850 / Louis Sicking
10. Conflict in North-Eastern Europe and the emergence of Russia to 1721 / Kira B. Stevens
11.The military in Safavid Iran, 1501–1736 / Rudolf Matthee
12. Wars of dynasties, wars of empires: The nature of European conflicts, 1648–1792 / Hamish Scott
13. The standing army: France and Brandenburg-Prussia – A comparison, 1648–1789 / Bernhard R. Kroener
14. Navies, technology, and organisation, 1648–1815 / Robin Briggs
15. Warfare in early modern Africa, c. 1450–c. 1850 / Richard Reid
16. Warfare in India, 1450–1850 / Kaushik Roy
17. Japan and Korea, 1450–1850 / Eugene Y. Park
18. Warfare in South-East Asia, 1448–1851 / Michael Charney
19. War in the era of Qing imperial consolidation and expansion, 1587–1804 / Pamela Crossley
20. The seventh continent: Russian territorial expansion, 1450–1850 / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
21. The maintenance of Hispanic dominance in Latin America / Gabriel Paquette
22. The United States from Independence to the war with Mexico, 1776–1848 / Kevin D. McCranie
23. The wars of the French Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1789–1815 / Alan Forrest
24. European sea power and the origins of European domination, 1800–1850 / Andrew Lambert
Select Bibliography
Index

Yours,

Gene Park

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Eugene Y. Park  朴英鎭
Professor
University of Nevada, Reno
https://www.unr.edu/history/faculty-staff/eugene-park
https://www.amazon.com/author/eugeneypark
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