World military history bibliography : : premodern and nonwestern military institutions and warfare / / by Barton C. Hacker.

• Superior document: History of warfare ; v. 16
• Author: Hacker, Barton C., 1935-
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of warfare ; v. 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (847 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967-1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic attention. Emphasis is on historical studies of military organization and the relationships between military and other social institutions, rather than wars and battles. Especially rich in references to the periodical literature, the bibliography is divided into eight parts: (1) general and comparative topics; (2) the ancient world; (3) Eurasia since antiquity; (4) sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania; (5) pre-Columbian America; (6) postcontact America; (7) the contemporary nonwestern world; and (8) philosophical, social scientific, natural scientific, and other works not primarily historical.

Table of Contents

Preface -- PART ONE GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF MILITARY INSTITUTIONS -- World Military History 3 -- Crosscultural Military Activity 12 -- Imperial Armed Forces 22 -- Old World Colonial Wars 34 -- Technology Transfer 49 -- Disease and Conquest 62 -- PART TWO MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Ancient Military Institutions and Warfare 75 -- Prehistory 82 -- Preclassical Near East 89 -- Mesopotamia 97 -- Egypt 103 -- Anatolia and the Levant 110 -- Crete, Mycenae, and Archaic Greece 115 -- Iran and Persia 120 -- The Classical World 125 -- Classical Greece 131 -- Rome 139 -- Bronze and Iron Age Europe 147 -- Ancient South and Southeast Asia 155 -- Preimperial China 162 -- Early Imperial China 171 -- PART THREE MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN EURASIA SINCE ANTIQUITY -- Eurasian Military Institutions and Warfare 179 -- Byzantium 189 -- Medieval Europe 194 -- Early Modern European Armed Forces and the Military Revolution 203 -- Russia 219 -- West Asia and the Middle East 226 -- Medieval Islam 232 -- Iran 236 -- North African State Societies 241 -- The Ottoman Empire 247 -- Central and Northern Asia 254 -- Medieval India 260 -- Southeast Asia 270 -- East Asia 276 -- Imperial China 284 -- Modern China 292 -- Premodern Japan 302 -- Modern Japan 311 -- PART FOUR MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA AND OCEANIA -- Subsaharan Africa in General 319 -- Western Sudan 328 -- Guinea Coast 340 -- Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and the Eastern Sudan 353 -- Eastern Africa 359 -- Southern and Central Africa 368 -- Oceania 378 -- New Guinea 386 -- PART FIVE PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS IN WARFARE -- Precolumbian American Complex Societies 401 -- The Americas General 407 -- Mesoamerican Civilization 414 -- Olmec and Maya 421 -- Zapotec/Mixtec/Teotihuacan 438 -- Toltec/Aztec 448 -- Andean Complex Societies 458 -- Precontact North America 470 -- PART SIX MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE IN POST-CONTACT AMERICA -- Eastern North America 487 -- Western North America 499 -- Tropical South America 512 -- Iberian Conquest and Indian Resistance 521 -- Colonial Wars in North America 534 -- Colonial Armed Forces 542 -- Military Acculturation in the Americas 549 -- National Indian Wars 557 -- Latin America 568 -- PART SEVEN NON-WESTERN MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE AFTER WORLD WAR II -- Nonwestern Military Affairs since 1945 577 -- Wars in the Third World 590 -- USSR 606 -- Middle East 612 -- South and Southeast Asian Military Forces 619 -- East Asia 626 -- Post World War II Subsaharan Africa 636 -- Latin America 646 -- PART EIGHT MILITARY INSTITUTIONS AND WARFARE ON WORKS NOT PRIMARY HISTORICAL -- War in Social Thought 659 -- War Explained Biologically 685 -- War Explained Culturally 715 -- Nonstate Warfare 744 -- State Origins 760 -- Index of Names 781.