1. Introduction -- 2. Gibbonian Strategies -- 3. Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Expansion and Warfare -- 4. The Seventeenth Century -- 5. The Pre-Revolutionary Eighteenth Century -- 6. An Age of Revolution and Imperial Reach, 1775-1815 -- 7. The Nineteenth Century -- 8. Warfare and the State, 1450-1900 -- 9. Twentieth-Century Reflections.
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