4th Edition

Introduction to Global Military History 1775 to the Present Day

By Jeremy Black Copyright 2025
376 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

376 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Introduction  1. The world of war in the eighteenth century  2. Empires rise and fall, 1800–30  3. Moulding states, 1830–80  4. Building empires, 1830–1913  5. World War One, 1914–18  6. Between two world wars  7. World War Two, 1939–45  8. Wars of decolonisation, 1945–94  9. The Cold War  10. Wars between non-Western powers, 1945–90  11. War in the 1990s  12. War in the 2000s  13. War in the 2010s  14. War in the 2020s  15. Conclusions

Biography

Jeremy Black is author of numerous books, including A Brief History of History, Tank Warfare and Charting the Past: The Historical Worlds of Eighteenth-Century England. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow of both the British Foreign Policy Group and of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History. Follow Black on his website, jeremyblackhistorian.wordpress.com.

This book encourages readers to grapple with broad questions of defence policy in the face of aggressive, revisionist powers that have at times arisen in military modern and contemporary history.

Professor Constantin HlihorBucharest University, Romania