Military & Naval History Books

New and Published Books

1. Maritime Slavery

   Edited by Philip Morgan

   Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office

   By Hans-Adolph Jacobsen, Arthur L. Smith Jr.

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   The Nazi Party and the German Foreign Office explores the struggle between entrenched diplomats in the Foreign Office and Party loyalists, who presumed that with the assumption of power in 1933 total state control was theirs....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reginald McKenna

   Financier among Statesmen, 1863–1916

   By Martin Farr

   Series: British Politics and Society

   Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia

   Confrontation and Negotiation, 1865-1895

   By Martin Ewans

   Series: Central Asian Studies

   The three decades between 1865 and 1895 marked a particularly contentious period in the relationship between Britain and Russia in Central Asia, which more than once brought them to the verge of war. Moderates tried to settle the problem by the negotiation of ‘neutral zones’, or firm boundaries,...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Sport, Militarism and the Great War

   Martial Manliness and Armageddon

   Edited by Thierry Terret, J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

   By Alex Marshall

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. War, Agriculture, and Food

   Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s

   Edited by Paul Brassley, Yves Segers, Leen Van Molle

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

   Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes which had been in progress over many years. This book examines a range of European countries, from Scandinavia to Spain and Ireland to...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Educating the Royal Navy

   18th and 19th Century Education for Officers

   By Harry W. Dickinson

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Modern Military Strategy

   An Introduction

   By Elinor C. Sloan

   This textbook provides a coherent introduction to post-Cold War and post-9/11 military theory for upper-level students seeking an initial understanding of strategic studies. In the contemporary period there has been significant and growing interest among students about international security issues...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. British Military Intervention and the Struggle for Jordan

    King Hussein, Nasser and the Middle East Crisis, 1955–1958

    By Stephen Blackwell

    Series: British Politics and Society

    Within two years of their abortive invasion of the Suez Canal zone in 1956, British troops once again intervened in a major Middle Eastern country. The Jordan intervention of July 1958 took place despite the steady decline of the British position in the country over the previous three years....

    Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge