ABSTRACT

This major book provides the most comprehensive guide available to nineteenth and twentieth century wars and their settlement. Erik Goldstein covers all aspects of over one hundred wars. He examines the deeper origins of the conflict, the immediate reason for the outbreak of hostilities, the course of the fighting, and the terms of the settlement. The book is organised both geographically and topically, covering a range of wars including the Post-Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars, Wars of German Unification, the Middle Eastern Wars, Maghreb Wars and South American Wars. There is an extensive bibliography, several appendices and an overall chronology.

chapter |5 pages

1 Post-Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars

chapter |8 pages

2 Wars of German Unification

chapter |6 pages

3 Wars of Italian Unification

chapter |22 pages

4 Decline of the Ottoman Empire

chapter |30 pages

5 World Wars and Related Conflicts

chapter |10 pages

6 Central Asian Wars

chapter |10 pages

7 South Asian Wars

chapter |5 pages

8 Anglo-Burmese Wars

chapter |25 pages

9 East Asian Wars

chapter |17 pages

10 Middle Eastern Wars

chapter |12 pages

11 West African Colonial Wars

chapter |7 pages

12 Southern African Colonial Wars

chapter |9 pages

13 Struggle for the Horn of Africa

chapter |5 pages

14 Somalian Wars

chapter |5 pages

15 Maghreb Wars

chapter |8 pages

16 Post-Independence African Wars

chapter |20 pages

17 South American Wars

chapter |8 pages

18 North and Central American Wars