The Cambridge History of Strategy 2 Volume Hardback Set

A global history of the practice of strategy across three millennia with contributions from leading subject experts.

Isabelle Duyvesteyn (Edited by), Beatrice Heuser (Edited by)

9781009417631, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 9 January 2025

1242 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 7 cm, 2.23 kg

'… readers of this imposing work are challenged to think long and hard about strategy from a global perspective. It is to be anticipated that this work will lead to more than a few reconsiderations of how we view strategy, whether as a universal concept, or a series of specific solutions related to societal factors, culture, time and geographical space. In short, this is a stimulating collection of contributions which comes highly recommended for both students and those researching strategy.' Alaric Searle, International Journal of Military History and Historiography

The Cambridge History of Strategy presents a global history exploring of how leaders of social groups, civilisations, empires and states have practiced strategy over the course of the past three millennia. With contributions from leading experts in each subject, these volumes analyse a series of notable case studies to reflect on the formulation and application of strategy rather than on theory. Transcending the traditional Western focus and modern-state-based framework of strategic studies, this Cambridge History offers the inclusion of a wider range of political actors and cases from parts of the world hitherto largely excluded from the literature. This leads to a discussion of whether central claims in the field of strategic studies that the practice of strategy exhibits universal features that apply always holds up against empirical evidence from different centuries and cases beyond the West.

Volume 1: Introduction to Volume I: The Practice of Strategy Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Beatrice Heuser
1. China to 180 CE Peter Lorge
2. Teispid and Achaemenid Persia (c. 550–330 BCE) John Hyland
3. Ancient Greece: strategy of the city states (500–400 BCE) Roel Konijnendijk
4. Philip II and Alexander III and the Macedonian Empire Andrew Fear
5. Ancient Rome before Augustus (753–27 BCE) Louis Rawlings
6. China 180–1127 CE David Graff
7. Ancient Rome: principate and dominate (27 BCE–630 AD) Michael Whitby
8. The Gupta Empire (400–500 CE) Kaushik Roy
9. The Sassanian Empire's strategies Katarzyna Maksymiuk
10. The Rashidun (632–661), Umayyad (661–750) and Abbasid (750–1258) Caliphates Mehdi Kurgan Kader
11. Byzantine strategy (630–1204 CE) Georgios Chatzelis
12. Strategies in the wars of western Europe, 476–c. 1000 John France
13. The later Middle Ages Sophie Therese Ambler
14. Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire 1206–1368 CE Timothy May
15. Hindu and Buddhist polities of pre/early-modern mainland southeast Asia (1100–1800) Tassapa Umavijani
16. Pre-Columbian Native American wars Patricia M. Lambert
17. Ottoman expansionism 1300–1823 Mesut Uyar
18. Strategy in the wars of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa Giacomo Macola and John Burton Kegel
19. Strategy/ies of the Mughal Empire Pratyay Nath
20. China 1368–1911 Kenneth Swope
21. Early modern Europe: the Habsburgs and their enemies, 1519–1659 David Parrott
22. Naval strategies Andri van Vliet
23. The strategy of Louis XIV Jamel Ostwald
24. Hohenzollern strategy under Frederick II Adam Storring
25. American warfare in the eighteenth century Stephen Conway
Overview Beatrice Heuser and Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Volume 2: 1. Introduction
2. The strategies of the Napoleonic Wars Alan Forrest
3. Guerrilla and nineteenth-century strategies of insurgency Ian Beckett
4. Russia, 1870–1917 Andrey Pavlov
5. The American Civil War Donald Stoker
6. The use of naval power Andrew Lambert
7. The Russo–Japanese War Rotem Kowner
8. Chinese strategy 1926-1949 Christopher Yung
9. First World War Robert Foley
10. Russia Civil War – till 1945 Nikita Lomagin
11. Air power Frans Osinga
12. The Second World War in Europe Guillaume Piketty
13. The Second World War in the Asia Pacific David Horner
14. Soviet strategy, 1945–1989 Laurien Crump
15. People's war and wars of decolonisation Mathilde von Bülow
16. Nuclear strategies Jeffrey Michaels
17. America's way of war Antulio Echevarria
18. The Korean war Xiaobing Li
19. Israel's wars Eitan Shamir and Eado Hecht
20. The India–Pakistan confrontations Sumit Ganguly
21. The Yugoslav Wars, 1991–1999 James Gow
22. Terrorism and insurgency Colin Clarke
23. The Forty Year War in Afghanistan Jan Angstrom
24. The three Gulf wars and Iraq Ahmed Hashim
25. China's wars, 1950–2021 Christopher Yung
26. Conclusion Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Beatrice Heuser and Samuel Zilincik.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW]