Part 1. Lecture 1. What is war? -- Lecture 2. The historiography of war -- Lecture 3. The Stone Age war -- Lecture 4. Peace, war, and civilization -- Lecture 5. The chariot revolution -- Lecture 6. The sword revolution -- Lecture 7. Steppes, standing armies, and silver trade -- Lecture 8. Pirates and Hoplites -- Lecture 9. Great empires of West and East -- Lecture 10. War and the rise of religion -- Lecture 11. The Greek way of war -- Lecture 12. An age of war throughout the core.
Part 2. Lecture 13. New empires and an armed peace -- Lecture 14. Monotheisms and militaries -- Lecture 15. Barbarians and the fall of three empires -- Lecture 16. Conquest links the core -- Lecture 17. The Middle Ages and a common way of war -- Lecture 18. Armored horsemen and global feudalization -- Lecture 19. Crusade, Jihad, and Dharma Yuddha -- Lecture 20. The Mongols conquer a world -- Lecture 21. The business of war in medieval Europe -- Lecture 22. The gunpowder revolution -- Lecture 23. War at the margins -- Lecture 24. A world apart-- war in the Americas.
Part 3. Lecture 25. Renaissance and military revolution -- Lecture 26. Conquest and colonies -- Lecture 27. The gunpowder empires -- Lecture 28. More holy wars -- Lecture 29. The rise of the regiment -- Lecture 30. The wooden world -- Lecture 31. The global war to control trade -- Lecture 32. Warfare and the nation-state -- Lecture 33. War and the making of the Americas -- Lecture 34.. War and the unmaking of Africa and Asia -- Lecture 35. The industrialization of war -- Lecture 36. The nationalization of war.
Part 4. Lecture 37. Race and class at war -- Lecture 38. Imperialism and the triumph of the West -- Lecture 39. The 19th century culture of war -- Lecture 40. A common way of war-- the 20th century -- Lecture 41. War and 20th century ideology -- Lecture 42. War and the persistence of nationalism -- Lecture 43. Economies and economics at war -- Lecture 44. Culture and war in the 20th century -- Lecture 45. The weaponization of information -- Lecture 46. Guerrilla war and terrorism -- Lecture 47. The struggle for peace and justice -- Lecture 48. Warfare at the turn of the century.
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