"What can a nineteenth-century Prussian general teach a twenty-first-century executive or entrepreneur about business strategy? Everything! When alliances are made, broken, and reconstituted at dizzying speed; when experience is left helpless in the face of unprecedented events;…
"Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the captur…
The debate about the "Military Revolution" has been one of the most controversial and exciting areas of discussion and research in the fields of early modern European history and military history. Scholars have long sought to explain the massive changes in European military tech…
Assessing the World War I alliance between big business and academic science, the scholar and critic Randolph Bourne prophetically argued that the university would ultimately be "degraded from its old, noble ideal of a community of scholarship to a private commercial corporation…
Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts.
An important new study of the information systems of the Britishempire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.
An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.
A collection of speeches presenting the most significant orations given during times of war. From Pope Urban II in the First Crusade through George W. Bush in the Iraq War, world leaders have been vilified or immortalized through their wartime speeches - words that profoundly im…
The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates it resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how…
A comparative examination of military development in early modern Eastern Europe, focusing on Russian, Polish-Lithuanian, Ottoman, Habsburg, Cossack, and Western European mercenary practice.
