Contents
Preface vii
1 Arms and Society in Antiquity^1(^2) The Era of Chinese Predominance,
1000–
Market and Command in Medieval China 25
Market Mobilization beyond China's Borders 50
24
3 The Business of War in Europe,
1000–
Pioneering the Business of War in Northern Italy 65
The Gunpowder Revolution and the Rise of Atlantic Europe 79
The Market Asserts Control 102
63
4 Advances in Europe s Art of War,
1600–
Geographical Spread 118
Improvements in the Control of Armies 125
Standardization and Quasi-Stabilization
of European Armed Forces 139
117
5 Strains on Europe’s Bureaucratization of Violence,
1700–
Disequilibrium Arising from Frontier Expansion 147
Challenges Arising from Deliberate Reorganization 158
144
(^6) The Military Impact of the French Political
and the British Industrial Revolutions,
1789–
The French Formula for Relieving Population Pressure 187
The British Variant 206
Postwar Settlement, 1815–40 215
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