Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)

The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars.

The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars.

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.

Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries.

Henry VIII fought many wars, against the French and Scots, against rebels in England and the Gaelic lords of Ireland, even against his traditional allies in the Low Countries.

David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France.

David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France.

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From 1649-1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history.

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways.

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways.

Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams.

Waterloo was the last battle fought by Napoleon and the one which finally ended his imperial dreams.

Turncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars.

In medieval Europe hostages were given, not taken.

'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.

The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators.

A Confusion of Tongues examines the complex interaction of religion, history, and law in the period before the outbreak of the wars of the Three Kingdoms.

A fresh approach to the English civil war, War in England 1642-1649 focuses on answering a misleadingly simple question: what kind of war was it to live through?

'If life could write, it would write like Tolstoy.

This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.

This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.

'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.

In contrast to Continental Europe, where the Iron Age is abundantly represented by funerary remains as well as by hill-forts and major centres, the British Iron Age is mainly represented by its settlement sites, and especially by houses of circular ground-plan, apparently in marked contrast to the Central and Northern European tradition of rectangular houses.

'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.

In Naples and Napoleon John Davis takes the southern Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as the vantage point for a sweeping reconsideration of Italy's history in the age of Napoleon and the European revolutions.

In the Middle Ages, the March between England and Wales was a contested, militarised frontier zone, a 'land of war'.

In this highly innovative study, Ian Green examines the complete array of Protestant titles published in England from the 1530s to the 1720s.

A fresh approach to the English civil war, War in England 1642-1649 focuses on answering a misleadingly simple question: what kind of war was it to live through?

England on Edge deals with the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the Church of England, and the accompanying cultural panic that led to civil war.

Exploring the effects of war on state power in early modern Europe, this book asks if military competition increased rulers' power over their subjects and forged more modern states, or if the strains of war broke down political and administrative systems.

The Hero of Italy examines a salient episode in Italy's Thirty Years' War with Spain and France, whereby the young duke Odoardo Farnese of Parma embraced the French alliance, only to experience defeat and occupation after two tumultuous years (1635-1637).

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.

Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction.

Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction.

Italy 1636 is one of the most closely-researched and detailed books on the operation of early modern armies anywhere, and is explicitly inspired by neo-Darwinian thinking.

A key duty of the Renaissance monarchy was the defence of its subjects.

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people.

The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people.

Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War charts the way the English civil war of the 1640s mutated into a revolution, in turn paving the way for the later execution of King Charles I and the abolition of the monarchy.

Covenanting Citizens throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English Revolution.

America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America.

Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War.

'A compulsive page-turner .

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered.

For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it.