In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the m

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the m

This engaging volume scrutinises the causal relationship between warfare and state formation, using Charles Tilly's work as a foundation.

From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the