Description
Book SynopsisThis major new reference collection reprints the most important published papers on the problems of war finance under varying constraints imposed by institutions, technology, geography, and strategy from the time of Alexander the Great to the Gulf War in 1991. Larry Neal has written a new comprehensive introduction to accompany the volumes.
Table of ContentsVolume I War from antiquity to artillery: the wars of antiquity; the wars of the Middle Ages; the wars of Early Modern Europe. Volume II War in the 18th and 19th centuries: war of League of Augsburg and war of the Spanish Succession; Seven Years War; American War of Independence; the wars of the Modern Age - French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War. Volume III War in the 20th century: World War I; World War II; Korean War; the Cold War; the Gulf War.
