Plotting Power : Strategy in the Eighteenth Century

Black, Jeremy

Indiana University Press（2017/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780253026088
• DDC分類 355.033509033

Full Description

Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields.  In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and Europe to the military machinations and plotting of such Asian powers as China, Japan, Burma, Vietnam, and Siam. Europeans coined the term "strategy" only two centuries ago, but strategy as a concept has been practiced globally throughout history. Taking issue with traditional military historians, Black argues persuasively that strategy was as much political as battlefield tactics and that plotting power did not always involve outright warfare but also global considerations of alliance building, trade agreements, and intimidation.

Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Struggle for Power
2. The Reach for World Empire: Britain, 1700-83
3. The Strategy of the Ancien Régime: France 1700-89
4. The Flow of Ideas
5. The Strategy of Continental Empires
6. The Strategy of the "Barbarians"
7. The Rise of Republican Strategies, 1775-1800
8. Imperial Imaginings, 1783-1800
9. Conclusions
10. Postscript: Strategy and Military History
Selected Further Reading
Index