World Military History Bibliography: Premodern and Nonwestern Military Institutions and Warfare

✍ Scribed by Barton C. Hacker

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 847
• Series: History of Warfare, 16
• Edition: annotated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967–1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
PART ONE GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS......Page 13
World Military History......Page 15
Crosscultural Military Activity......Page 24
Imperial Armed Forces......Page 34
Old World Colonial Wars......Page 46
Technology Transfer......Page 61
Disease and Conquest......Page 74
PART TWO MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 85
Ancient Military Institutions and Warfare......Page 87
Prehistory......Page 94
Preclassical Near East......Page 101
Mesopotamia......Page 109
Egypt......Page 117
Anatolia and the Levant......Page 122
Crete, Mycenae, and Archaic Greece......Page 127
Iran and Persia......Page 132
The Classical World......Page 137
Classical Greece......Page 143
Rome......Page 151
Bronze and Iron Age Europe......Page 159
Ancient South and Southeast Asia......Page 167
Preimperial China......Page 174
Early Imperial China......Page 183
PART THREE MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN EURASIA SINCE ANTIQUITY......Page 189
Eurasian Military Institutions and Warfare......Page 191
Byzantium......Page 201
Medieval Europe......Page 206
Early Modern European Armed Forces and the Military Revolution......Page 217
Russia......Page 231
West Asia and the Middle East......Page 238
Medieval Islam......Page 244
Iran......Page 248
North African State Societies......Page 253
The Ottoman Empire......Page 259
Central and Northern Asia......Page 266
Medieval India......Page 272
Southeast Asia......Page 282
East Asia......Page 288
Imperial China......Page 296
Modern China......Page 304
Premodern Japan......Page 314
Modern Japan......Page 323
PART FOUR MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND OCEANIA......Page 329
Subsaharan Africa in General......Page 331
Western Sudan......Page 340
Guinea Coast......Page 352
Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and the Eastern Sudan......Page 365
Eastern Africa......Page 371
Southern and Central Africa......Page 380
Oceania......Page 389
New Guinea......Page 397
PART FIVE PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE......Page 411
Precolumbian American Complex Societies......Page 413
The Americas General......Page 419
Mesoamerican Civilization......Page 426
Olmec and Maya......Page 433
Zapotec/Mixtec/Teotihuacan......Page 450
Toltec/Aztec......Page 460
Andean Complex Societies......Page 470
Precontact North America......Page 482
PART SIX MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN POST-CONTACT AMERICA......Page 497
Eastern North America......Page 499
Western North America......Page 511
Tropical South America......Page 524
Iberian Conquest and Indian Resistance......Page 533
Colonial Wars in North America......Page 546
Colonial Armed Forces......Page 554
Military Acculturation in the Americas......Page 561
National Indian Wars......Page 569
Latin America......Page 580
PART SEVEN NON-WESTERN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE AFTER WORLD WAR II......Page 587
Nonwestern Military Affairs since 1945......Page 589
Wars in the Third World......Page 601
USSR......Page 618
Middle East......Page 624
South and Southeast Asian Military Forces......Page 631
East Asia......Page 638
Post World War II Subsaharan Africa......Page 648
Latin America......Page 658
PART EIGHT MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN WORKS NOT PRIMARILY HISTORICAL......Page 671
War in Social Thought......Page 673
War Explained Biologically......Page 699
War Explained Culturally......Page 730
Nonstate Warfare......Page 757
State Origins......Page 773
A......Page 793
B......Page 795
C......Page 800
D......Page 803
E......Page 805
F......Page 807
G......Page 809
H......Page 812
I......Page 815
J......Page 816
K......Page 817
L......Page 820
M......Page 823
N......Page 827
O......Page 828
P......Page 829
R......Page 832
S......Page 834
T......Page 840
V......Page 842
W......Page 843
Z......Page 846