War and Competition between States [Hardcover]

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year that passed without either war or some demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers that governed Europe. This volume in theOrigins of the Modern State in Europeseries focuses on the crucial role of war in the formation of state systems.

1. Introduction,Philippe Contamine
2. Political and Military Bonds in the Italian State System, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries,Maria Nadia Covini
3. Types of Armies: Early Modern Spain,Luis Ribot Garcia
4. States and their Navies from the Late Sixteenth to the End of the Eighteenth Centuries,Jaap R. Bruijn
5. States, Roads, Armies, and the Organization of Peace,Jean Meyer
6. Men, Money, and Means,Jan Lindegren
7. The Growth of State Control. Practices of War 1300-1800: Ransom and Booty,Philippe Contamine
8. the Modern State and Military Society in the Eighteenth Century,Bernhard R. Kroener
9. Pro deo et patria mori: Sanctified Patriotism in Europe,Norman Housley
10. The Peacemakers and the State: Pontifical Diplomacy and the Anglo-French Conflict in the Fourteenth Century,Francoise Autrand
11. War and International Law in Europe, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,Heinz Duchhardt