19th Century Military History Books

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1. War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History, 2nd Edition

   By Colin S. Gray

   This new edition of Colin Gray's textbook explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellent introduction to the international history of the past two hundred years, showing how those ...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59487-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Geopolitics and Strategic History 1871-2050

   By Geoffrey Sloan

   A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China. This volume contributes to empirically based geopolitical theory and uses that theory to improve our understanding of the major events in the international strategic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-7146-5348-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Helmuth Von Moltke: A Modern Biography

   By Arden Bucholz

   This detailed and comprehensive book offers the first modern biography of Helmuth Von Moltke, a major progenitor of the processes modern great powers use to engage in large-scale warfare. Drawing upon the author’s own previously published works, Moltke, Schlieffen and Prussian War Planning and...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-70200-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Technology and the Mid-Victorian Royal Navy: Ironclads and Naval Innovation

   By Howard J. Fuller

   A revealing new examination of Palmerstonian diplomacy during the pivotal decade of the 1860s, the evolution of the modern capital ship and the real nature of ‘empire’, ‘technology’ and ‘seapower’. In contrast to the standard image of the mid-Victorian Royal navy as all-powerful, Howard Fuller...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-37004-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia: Confrontation and Negotiation, 1865-1895

   By Martin Ewans

   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,...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-49681-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Conscription in the Napoleonic Era: A Revolution in Military Affairs?

   Edited by Donald Stoker, Frederick C. Schneid, Harold D. Blanton

   This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars. The levée-en-masse of the French Revolution has often been cited as a ‘Revolution...

   2008 | 978-0-415-34999-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Imperial Defence: The Old World Order, 1856–1956

   Edited by Greg Kennedy

   This new collection of essays, from leading British and Canadian scholars, presents an excellent insight into the strategic thinking of the British Empire. It defines the main areas of the strategic decision-making process that was known as 'Imperial Defence'. The theme is one of...

   2007 | 978-0-415-35595-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies: Military Service in France and Germany, 1789–1830

   By Thomas Hippler

   This book examines the creation of ‘national armies’ through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period. The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge....

   2007 | 978-0-415-40979-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History

   By Colin S. Gray, Colin S. Gray

   This new volume explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. In fifteen clear and concise chapters, this book hits the high and low points of international politics over a two hundred year period, plus a brief foray into the...

   2007 | 978-0-415-38639-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005

    Edited by Bruce Allen Elleman, Sarah C.M. Paine

    This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the...

    2007 | 978-0-415-43871-1 | Paperback (Routledge)