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Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914 traces war in Europe from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the eve of the First World War.The Nineteenth century was profoundly affected by the Napoleonic style of warfare which influenced all subsequent military development and shaped Europe's history, borders and culture. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and political phenomenon no less than a military and technological one and includes discussion of: The French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Napoleon III and the militarization of Europe Bismarck, Moltke and the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 New Technologies and Weapons Seapower, imperialism and naval warfare The origins and outbreak of the First World War. Combining new insights on Bismarck's Wars, Austria-Hungary and Italy, with the latest writing on European armies and navies in the modern period, this book details the evolution of land and naval warfare and highlights the swirling interplay of society, politics and military decision-making.

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... Wawro has done well to master and compress much of the voluminous recent literature on the subject, an especially challenging task with regard to studies of the leading great powers...Wawro's own special expertise, which lies in the history of Austria-Hungary, adds an important further Central European dimension to the work.--Keith Jeffery, University of Ulster at Jordanstown. <br> Wawro, among the best of the new generations of military historians, has written the best extant survey of the long century of European military dominance that began in 1792 with the French Revolutionary Wars and ended in the trenches of 1914. His willingness to take an essentially chronological approach makes the work's paperback edition especially well suited as a primary text for military history courses and as a collateral reading for general courses in the period. <br>- Military History <br>

'... the book is highly readable, thought provoking and should provide readers with a useful background on the century in which Europe prepared itself for self-destruction' - Michael Crawshaw, British Army Review, no. 131, 2003 '... stimulating, balanced and original' - Michael Crawshaw, British Army Review, no. 131, 2003

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Wawro, Geoffrey

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