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This new book provides an excellent resource on the nature of European warfare from the outbreak of the Valois-Habsburg wars to the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Having become highly unfashionable in the 1960s and 1970s, military history is now enjoying a remarkable renaissance. Warfare is now seen as a crucial social, technological and economic function of how states work, each period offering fascinating information both on the battles fought (or not fought) and, more importantly, on how these reflected society as a whole. This new book provides an excellent resource on the nature of European warfare from the outbreak of the Valois-Habsburg wars to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a period during which society underwent quite extraordinary changes.
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