War and Competition between States

by Philippe Contamine (Editor)

Overview

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year that passed without either war or some demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers that governed Europe. This volume in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series focuses on the crucial role of war in the formation of state systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198202141
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/2001
Series:	The ^AOrigins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	9.58(w) x 6.64(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

La Sorbonne, Paris

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Philippe Contamine2. Political and Military Bonds in the Italian State System, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries, Maria Nadia Covini3. Types of Armies: Early Modern Spain, Luis Ribot Garcia4. States and their Navies from the Late Sixteenth to the End of the Eighteenth Centuries, Jaap R. Bruijn5. States, Roads, Armies, and the Organization of Peace, Jean Meyer6. Men, Money, and Means, Jan Lindegren7. The Growth of State Control. Practices of War 1300-1800: Ransom and Booty, Philippe Contamine8. the Modern State and Military Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bernhard R. Kroener9. Pro deo et patria mori: Sanctified Patriotism in Europe, Norman Housley10. The Peacemakers and the State: Pontifical Diplomacy and the Anglo-French Conflict in the Fourteenth Century, Francoise Autrand11. War and International Law in Europe, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Heinz Duchhardt