The Cambridge history of strategy. Volume 1, From antiquity to the American War of Independence / edited by Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duyvesteyn, Isabelle, 1972- editor.

Heuser, Beatrice, 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategy--History.

Strategy.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

From antiquity to the American War of Independence

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"With an international team of subject experts, Volume I offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, complemented by archaeology, to the late 18th century, throughout the world. This volume addresses how strategy was formulated and applied, and with what tools; Focusing on the period from 1800 to the present, Volume II showcases a diverse set of case studies to illustrate the practice of strategy in different places around the globe"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction to volume I : The practice of strategy / Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser

China to AD 180 / Peter Lorge

Teispid and Achaemenid Persia (c. 550-330 BC) / John O. Hyland

Ancient Greece : Strategy of the city states (500-300 BC) / Roel Konijnendijk

Philip II, Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire / Andrew Fear

Ancient Rome : Monarchy and republic (753-27 BC) / Louis Rawlings

China AD 180-1127 / David A. Graff

Ancient Rome : Principate and dominate (27 BC-AD 630) / Michael Whitby

The Gupta Empire (AD 400-500) / Kaushik Roy

The Sassanian Empire’s strategies / Katarzyna Maksymiuk

The Rashidun, Umayyad (661-750) and Abbasid (750-1258) caliphates / Mehdi Kurgan Kader

Byzantine strategy (AD 630-1204) / Georgios Chatzelis

Strategies in the wars of Western Europe, 476-c. 1000 / John France

Latin Christendom in the later Middle Ages / Sophie Thérèse Ambler

Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire, AD 1206 to 1368 / Timothy May

Hindu and Buddhist polities of premodern/early modern mainland South-East Asia (1100-1800) / Tassapa Umavijani

Pre-Columbian and early historic Native American warfare / Patricia M. Lambert

Ottoman expansionism, 1300-1823 / Mesut Uyar

Strategy in the wars of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa / John Burton Kegel and Giacomo Macola

Strategies of the Mughal Empire / Pratyay Nath

China, 1368-1911 / Kenneth M. Swope

Early modern Europe : The Habsburgs and their enemies, 1519-1659 / David Parrott

Naval strategies / Adri van Vliet

The strategy of Louis XIV / Jamel Ostwald

Hohenzollern strategy under Frederick II / Adam L. Storring

American warfare in the eighteenth century / Stephen Conway

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed September 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Cambridge history of strategy

ISBN:

9781108788090

1108788092

9781108846325

1108846327

9781108847964

110884796X

OCLC:

1428421332

Publisher Number:

CIPO000145386

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license