Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS -- World Military History -- Crosscultural Military Activity -- Imperial Armed Forces -- Old World Colonial Wars -- Technology Transfer -- Disease and Conquest -- PART TWO MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Ancient Military Institutions and Warfare -- Prehistory -- Preclassical Near East -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- Anatolia and the Levant -- Crete, Mycenae, and Archaic Greece -- Iran and Persia -- The Classical World -- Classical Greece -- Rome -- Bronze and Iron Age Europe -- Ancient South and Southeast Asia -- Preimperial China -- Early Imperial China -- PART THREE MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN EURASIA SINCE ANTIQUITY -- Eurasian Military Institutions and Warfare -- Byzantium -- Medieval Europe -- Early Modern European Armed Forces and the Military Revolution -- Russia -- West Asia and the Middle East -- Medieval Islam -- Iran -- North African State Societies -- The Ottoman Empire -- Central and Northern Asia -- Medieval India -- Southeast Asia -- East Asia -- Imperial China -- Modern China -- Premodern Japan -- Modern Japan -- PART FOUR MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND OCEANIA -- Subsaharan Africa in General -- Western Sudan -- Guinea Coast -- Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and the Eastern Sudan -- Eastern Africa -- Southern and Central Africa -- Oceania -- New Guinea -- PART FIVE PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE -- Precolumbian American Complex Societies -- The Americas General -- Mesoamerican Civilization -- Olmec and Maya -- Zapotec/Mixtec/Teotihuacan -- Toltec/Aztec -- Andean Complex Societies -- Precontact North America -- PART SIX MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN POST-CONTACT AMERICA -- Eastern North America -- Western North America.

Tropical South America -- Iberian Conquest and Indian Resistance -- Colonial Wars in North America -- Colonial Armed Forces -- Military Acculturation in the Americas -- National Indian Wars -- Latin America -- PART SEVEN NON-WESTERN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE AFTER WORLD WAR II -- Nonwestern Military Affairs since 1945 -- Wars in the Third World -- USSR -- Middle East -- South and Southeast Asian Military Forces -- East Asia -- Post World War II Subsaharan Africa -- Latin America -- PART EIGHT MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN WORKS NOT PRIMARILY HISTORICAL -- War in Social Thought -- War Explained Biologically -- War Explained Culturally -- Nonstate Warfare -- State Origins -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.