Contents

pp v-vii

Illustrations

pp viii-ix

Maps

pp x-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction to volume IV

pp 1-6

Part I - The industrialization of warfare, 1850–1914

pp 7-15

1 - A hinge in time

pp 16-44

2 - War, technology, and industrial change, 1850–1914

pp 45-68

3 - War and imperial expansion

pp 69-93

4 - The non-western world responds to imperialism, 1850–1914

pp 94-118

5 - War, society, and culture, 1850–1914

pp 119-141

6 - War-making and restraint by law

pp 142-162

7 - The arms race

pp 163-180

Part II - The Era of Total War, 1914–1945

pp 181-191

8 - World War I

pp 192-213

9 - Military captivity in two world wars

pp 214-235

10 - Military occupations, 1914–1945

pp 236-256

11 - Home fronts

pp 257-284

12 - The search for peace in the interwar period

pp 285-309

13 - Commemorating war, 1914–1945

pp 310-326

14 - Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era

pp 327-351

15 - The military and the revolutionary state

pp 352-377

16 - World War II

pp 378-410

Part III - Post-total warfare, 1945–2005

pp 411-427

17 - Military occupations, 1945–1955

pp 428-451

18 - The wars after the war, 1945–1954

pp 452-471

19 - Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages

pp 472-492

20 - Conventional war, 1945–1990

pp 493-514

21 - Wars of decolonization, 1945–1975

pp 515-541