EMEMH Titles
Here is the revised list of EMEMH publications – apologies for the cramped space, but it seems to be a function of the template I selected.
See here for initial methodology, and click on the Publishing tag for discussion. At the end of this long table is discussion of miscellaneous notes on the variables themselves.
Due to display size constraints, I have more variables than those displayed in the table here and also had to truncate some of the info. If you want the data to play around with, contact me.
Let me know of any corrections or additions.
Key
Pgs: number of pages (from Amazon).
$: price of the book in (December) 2011 U.S. dollars according to Amazon.
PB?: Is the book available in paperback? 0 = yes, 1 = no.
Pop/Ac: Is the work an academic work, a popular work, or a popular work put out by an academic press.
#YrStd: Number of years covered in the book, with a minimum of 10 years (even for case studies).
War: War title covers. Sometime I’ll post up my abbreviations, but you can probably figure them out for yourself!
Country: What country title covers. If more than one, “Europe.”
Subject: The main subject matter – is it fundamentally a book about a war? a battle? War and Society?…
Year | Publisher | Author | Title | Pgs | $ | PB? | Pop/Ac | #YrStd | War | Country | Subject |
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2000 | Birlinn Limited | Stoye | The Siege of Vienna | 240 | $15 | 0 | AcPop | 10 | Ott | Austria | Siege |
2000 | Brill | Manetsch | Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France, 1572-1598 | 380 | $138 | 1 | Ac | 23 | FWR | France | RWP |
2000 | Emperor’s | Duffy | Instrument of War: The Austrian Army in the Seven Years War | 256 | $65 | 1 | Pop | 10 | 7YW | Austria | Army |
2000 | INOS | Luh | Ancien Regime Warfare and the Military Revolution | 210 | 1 | Ac | 90 | 7YW | Europe | MilRev | |
2000 | Longman | Knecht | The French civil wars, 1562-1598 | 360 | $37 | 0 | AcPop | 36 | FWR | France | Survey |
2000 | Longman | Schieder | Frederick the Great | 304 | $35 | 0 | AcPop | 42 | Multiple | Germany | Biography |
2000 | Longman | Frost | The Northern Wars: war, state, and society in northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 | 416 | $69 | 0 | AcPop | 163 | GNoW | Sweden | W&S |
2000 | Penguin | Chandler | Marlborough as Military Commander | 408 | $33 | 0 | Pop | 27 | WSS | Britain | Biography |
2000 | Routledge | Glete | Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe | 256 | $4 | 0 | Ac | 150 | Multiple | Europe | Naval |
2000 | Sutton | Black | Culloden and the ’45 | 252 | $30 | 0 | Pop | 10 | ’45 | Britain | Battle |
2000 | Sutton | Barratt | Cavaliers: the royalist army at war, 1642-1646 | 256 | $17 | 0 | Pop | 10 | BCW | Britain | Army |
2000 | Sutton | Edwards | Dealing in Death: The Arms Trade and the British Civil Wars, 1638-1652 | 304 | $55 | 1 | Pop | 14 | BCW | Britain | W&S |
2000 | Yale | Allen | Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, 1598-1621: The Failure of Grand Strategy | 352 | $66 | 1 | Ac | 23 | DR | Spain | Strategy |
2000 | Yale | Parker | The Grand Strategy of Philip II | 472 | $35 | 0 | Ac | 42 | DR | Spain | Strategy |
2001 | Boydell | Wiggins | Anatomy of a Siege: King John’s Castle, Limerick, 1642 | 328 | $72 | 1 | Ac | 10 | BCW | Britain | Siege |
2001 | Brill | Murdoch | Scotland and the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648 | 328 | $178 | 1 | Ac | 30 | 30YW | Britain | Country |
2001 | Brill | Lenihan | Conquest and Resistance: War in Seventeenth Century Ireland | 380 | $204 | 1 | Ac | 100 | Multiple | Britain | Country |
2001 | Cambridge | Parrott | Richelieu’s Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 | 628 | $142 | 1 | Ac | 18 | FrSp | France | W&S |
2001 | Cassell | Childs | Warfare in the Seventeenth Century | 240 | $18 | 0 | Pop | 100 | Multiple | Europe | Survey |
2001 | Cassell | Arnold | The Renaissance at War | 240 | $18 | 0 | Pop | 100 | ValHab | Europe | Survey |
2001 | Cork | Lenihan | Confederate Catholics at war, 1641-49 | 320 | $36 | 1 | Ac | 10 | BCW | Britain | Army |
2001 | Longman | Lenman | England’s Colonial Wars, 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity | 320 | $60 | 0 | AcPop | 138 | Multiple | Britain | Global |
2001 | Penn State | Dunning | Russia’s First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty | 657 | $99 | 1 | Ac | 15 | Troubles | Russia | War |
2001 | Tuckwell | Macdougall | An Antidote to the English: The Auld Alliance 1295-1560 | 168 | 1 | AcPop | 265 | Multiple | Britain | Country | |
2001 | UCL | Fissel | English Warfare, 1511-1641 | 400 | $38 | 0 | Ac | 130 | Multiple | Britain | Country |
2002 | Ashgate | von Arni | Justice to the Maimed Soldier: Nursing, Medical Care and Welfare for Sick and Wounded Families during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum, 1642-1660 | 283 | $150 | 1 | Ac | 18 | BCW | Britain | Medical |
2002 | Basic Books | Parker | Success is Never Final: Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe | 432 | 1 | Pop | 150 | Multiple | Europe | Edited | |
2002 | Brill | Kunzle | From Criminal to Courtier: The Soldier in Netherlandish Art 1550-1672 | 824 | $315 | 1 | Ac | 122 | Multiple | Netherlands | Art |
2002 | Cambridge | Hughes | Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660 | 412 | $74 | 1 | Ac | 40 | BCW | Britain | W&S |
2002 | Cambridge | Sonnino | Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War | 252 | $41 | 0 | Ac | 10 | DW | France | Diplo |
2002 | Cambridge | Rowlands | The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest 1661-1701 | 432 | $57 | 0 | Ac | 40 | Multiple | France | W&S |
2002 | Cambridge | Tracy | Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics | 362 | $37 | 0 | Ac | 43 | Multiple | Spain | W&S |
2002 | Chicago | Churchill | Marlborough: His Life and Times | 1,050 | $78 | 0 | AcPop | 27 | WSS | Britain | Biography |
2002 | Edinburgh | Roberts | The Jacobite wars | 256 | $38 | 0 | Ac | 10 | Multiple | Britain | War |
2002 | Foundry | Heath | Armies of England, Scotland, Ireland, the United Provinces, and the Spanish Netherlands 1487-1609 | 160 | $315 | 1 | Pop | 122 | Multiple | Europe | Army |
2002 | Greenwood | Speelman | Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth-Century Europe | 240 | $105 | 1 | Ac | 40 | Multiple | Britain | Biography |
2002 | Greenwood | Guthrie | Battles of the Thirty Years War: from White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635 | 352 | $120 | 1 | Ac | 17 | 30YW | Germany | Battle |
2002 | Oxford | Housley | Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400-1536 | 248 | $45 | 0 | Ac | 136 | Multiple | Europe | RWP |
2002 | Penguin | Parker | The Dutch Revolt | 336 | $16 | 0 | AcPop | 53 | DR | Netherlands | War |
2002 | Phoenix | Henderson | Prince Eugen of Savoy: A Biography | 336 | $32 | 0 | Pop | 45 | WSS | Austria | Biography |
2002 | Routledge | Wheeler | The Irish and British wars, 1637-1654: triumph, tragedy, and failure | 288 | $41 | 0 | Ac | 17 | BCW | Britain | War |
2002 | Routledge | Black | European Warfare, 1494-1660 | 240 | $36 | 0 | Ac | 166 | Multiple | Europe | Survey |
2002 | Routledge | Glete | War and the state in early modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1660 | 288 | $38 | 0 | Ac | 160 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2002 | Routledge | Lee | The Thirty Years War | 73 | $30 | 0 | Ac | 30 | 30YW | Germany | War |
2002 | Spellmount | Falkner | Great and Glorious Days: Schellenberg, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet | 264 | $20 | 0 | Pop | 10 | WSS | Britain | Battle |
2002 | Sussex Academic | Glozier | The Huguenot soldiers of William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution of 1688: The Lions of Judah | 228 | $33 | 0 | Ac | 10 | 9YW | France | Biography |
2003 | Ashgate | Pursell | The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years’ War | 336 | $90 | 1 | Ac | 14 | 30YW | Germany | Biography |
2003 | Boydell | Hopkin | Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 | 408 | $90 | 1 | Ac | 104 | Multiple | France | W&S |
2003 | Brill | Satterfield | Princes, Posts and Partisans: The Army of Louis XIV and Partisan Warfare in the Netherlands (1673-1678) | 312 | $42 | 0 | Ac | 10 | DW | France | War |
2003 | Cambridge | Potter | War and Government in the French Provinces: Picardy 1470-1560 | 412 | $61 | 0 | Ac | 90 | Multiple | France | W&S |
2003 | Cambridge | Bireley | The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors | 320 | $49 | 1 | Ac | 30 | 30YW | Germany | RWP |
2003 | Cambridge | Ingrao | The Hessian Mercenary State: Ideas, institutions and reform under Frederick II, 1760-1785 | 256 | $53 | 0 | Ac | 25 | Multiple | Germany | W&S |
2003 | Cambridge | Goodman | Spanish Naval Power, 1589-1665: Reconstruction and Defeat | 328 | $50 | 0 | Ac | 76 | DR | Spain | Naval |
2003 | Emperor’s | Duffy | Prussia’s Glory: Rossbach and Leuthen 1757 | 208 | $33 | 1 | Pop | 10 | 7YW | Germany | Battle |
2003 | Exeter | Stoyle | Circle With Stone: Exeter’s City Walls, 1485-1660 | 240 | $75 | 1 | Ac | 175 | Multiple | Britain | Siege |
2003 | Greenwood | Guthrie | The Later Thirty Years War: From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia | 320 | $92 | 1 | Ac | 22 | 30YW | Germany | Battle |
2003 | iUniverse | Young | European War and Diplomacy, 1337-1815: A Bibliography | 308 | $22 | 0 | Ac | 478 | Multiple | Europe | Reference |
2003 | Longman | Hochedlinger | Austria’s Wars of Emergence: War, State and Society in the Habsburg Monarchy 1683-1797 | 488 | $32 | 0 | AcPop | 114 | Multiple | Austria | W&S |
2003 | MIT | Langins | Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution | 568 | $60 | 1 | Ac | 110 | Multiple | France | W&S |
2003 | Naval Institute | Guilmartin | Gunpowder and galleys: changing technology and Mediterranean warfare at sea in the sixteenth century | 352 | $33 | 1 | Ac | 100 | Multiple | Europe | Naval |
2003 | Oxford | LeDonne | The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire: 1650-1831 | 288 | $125 | 1 | Ac | 181 | Multiple | Russia | Strategy |
2003 | Palgrave Macmillan | MacHardy | War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622 | 328 | $140 | 1 | AcPop | 101 | 30YW | Austria | W&S |
2003 | Palgrave Macmillan | Hammer | Elizabeth’s Wars: War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544-1604 | 344 | $130 | 1 | AcPop | 60 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2003 | Pen & Sword | Watson | Marlborough’s Shadow: The Life of the First Earl Cadogan | 224 | $37 | 0 | Pop | 36 | WSS | Britain | Biography |
2003 | Praeger | Starkey | War in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1700-1789 | 248 | $85 | 1 | Ac | 89 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2003 | Tempus | Smithers | The Tangier Campaign: The Birth of the British Army | 192 | 1 | Pop | 10 | Britain | Country | ||
2004 | Allen Lane | Rodger | The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 | 976 | $22 | 0 | Pop | 167 | Multiple | Britain | Naval |
2004 | Ashgate | Morriss | Naval Power and British Culture, 1760-1850: Public Trust and Government Ideology | 312 | $150 | 1 | Ac | 90 | Multiple | Britain | Naval |
2004 | Boydell | Harari | Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 | 240 | $95 | 1 | Ac | 150 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2004 | Brassey’s | Marshall | Oliver Cromwell, Soldier. The Military Life of a Revolutionary at War | 248 | 1 | Pop | 18 | BCW | Britain | Biography | |
2004 | Brill | Griffin | Regulating Religion and Morality in the King’s Armies, 1639-1646 | 256 | $156 | 1 | Ac | 10 | BCW | Britain | W&S |
2004 | Brill | Lockhart | Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark’s Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596 | 388 | $204 | 1 | Ac | 37 | FWR | Denmark | RWP |
2004 | Brill | Glozier | Scottish Soldiers in France in the Reign of the Sun King: Nursery for Men of Honour | 292 | $178 | 1 | Ac | 49 | Multiple | Scotland | Country |
2004 | Cambridge | Parker | The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 | 336 | $41 | 0 | Ac | 92 | DR | Spain | W&S |
2004 | Exeter | Saunders | Fortress Builder: Bernard de Gomme, Charles II’s Military Engineer | 416 | $110 | 1 | Ac | 44 | Multiple | Britain | Siege |
2004 | iUniverse | Young | International Politics and Warfare in the Age of Louis XIV and Peter the Great: A Guide to the Historical Literature | 540 | $32 | Ac | 55 | Multiple | Europe | W&S | |
2004 | Manchester | Cardwell | Arts and Arms: Literature, Politics and Patriotism during the Seven Years War | 320 | $75 | 1 | Ac | 10 | 7YW | Britain | W&S |
2004 | Oxford | Manning | Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms | 288 | $150 | 1 | Ac | 117 | Multiple | Britain | Biography |
2004 | Palgrave Macmillan | Scott | Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-1649 | 208 | $39 | 1 | AcPop | 12 | BCW | Britain | W&S |
2004 | Palgrave Macmillan | Royle | The British Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 | 928 | $40 | 0 | AcPop | 22 | BCW | Britain | War |
2004 | Palgrave Macmillan | Mortimer | Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War, 1618-48 | 256 | $38 | 0 | AcPop | 30 | 30YW | Germany | W&S |
2004 | Palgrave Macmillan | Hook | Sack of Rome, 1527 | 360 | 1 | AcPop | 10 | ValHab | Italy | Siege | |
2004 | Pen & Sword | Falkner | Blenheim 1704: Marlborough’s Greatest Victory | 141 | $25 | 0 | Pop | 10 | WSS | Germany | Battle |
2004 | Spellmount | Chandler | Blenheim Preparations: The English Army on the March to the Danube. Collected Essays | 232 | 1 | Pop | 27 | WSS | Britain | Country | |
2004 | Weidenfeld & Nicholson | Hussey | Marlborough: Hero of Blenheim | 224 | $25 | 1 | Pop | 27 | WSS | Britain | Biography |
2004 | Yale | Kamen | The Duke of Alba | 216 | $35 | 1 | Ac | 57 | DR | Spain | Biography |
2005 | Ashgate | Sankey | Jacobite Prisoners of the 1715 Rebellions: Preventing and Punishing Insurrection in Early Hanoverian Britain | 176 | $120 | 1 | Ac | 10 | 1715 | Britain | W&S |
2005 | Boydell | Jones | Thomas Rainborowe (c.1610-1648): Civil War Seaman, Siegemaster and Radical | 164 | $80 | 1 | Ac | 38 | BCW | Britain | Biography |
2005 | Brill | Lloyd | War, Society and Enlightenment: The Works of General Lloyd | 750 | $315 | 1 | Ac | 40 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2005 | Cambridge | Ágoston | Guns for the Sultan: Military Power and the Weapons Industry in the Ottoman Empire | 300 | $39 | 0 | Ac | 298 | Multiple | Turkey | W&S |
2005 | Chicago | Van Orden | Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France | 344 | $45 | 1 | Ac | 250 | Multiple | France | W&S |
2005 | Edizioni Plus | Arfaioli | The Black Bands of Giovanni: Infantry and Diplomacy during the Italian Wars (1526-1528) | 224 | 1 | Pop | 10 | Naples1 | Italy | Army | |
2005 | Four Courts | McKenny | The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-80: The landed interests, political ideologies and military campaigns of the north-west Ulster settlers | 250 | $75 | 1 | Ac | 40 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2005 | Four Courts | McGettigan | Red Hugh O’Donnell and the Nine Years War | 190 | 1 | Ac | 10 | Tyrone | Britain | War | |
2005 | Frank Cass | Carpenter | Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651: ‘The Genius of this Age’ | 240 | $40 | 0 | Ac | 10 | BCW | Britain | Army |
2005 | Frank Cass | Telp | The Evolution of Operational Art, 1740-1813; From Frederick the Great to Napoleon | 240 | $170 | 1 | Ac | 73 | Multiple | Europe | Battle |
2005 | Johns Hopkins | Kirk | Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559-1684 | 296 | $55 | 1 | Ac | 125 | Multiple | Italy | Naval |
2005 | Kansas | Citino | The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich | 428 | $25 | 1 | AcPop | 327 | Multiple | Germany | Army |
2005 | Longman | Sadler | Border Fury: England and Scotland at War, 1296-1568 | 656 | $31 | 0 | AcPop | 272 | Multiple | Britain | Country |
2005 | Nebraska | Dull | The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War | 472 | $20 | 0 | Ac | 10 | 7YW | France | Naval |
2005 | New York Review | Wedgwood | The Thirty Years War | 536 | $20 | 0 | Pop | 30 | 30YW | Europe | War |
2005 | Palgrave Macmillan | Lunsford | Piracy and Privateering in the Golden Age Netherlands | 376 | $90 | 1 | AcPop | 145 | Multiple | Netherlands | Naval |
2005 | Pearson | Wanklyn | A Military History of the English Civil War: 1642-1649 | 328 | $67 | 1 | AcPop | 25 | BCW | Britain | War |
2005 | Pen & Sword | Falkner | Marlborough goes to war: Eyewitness accounts, 1702-1713 | 239 | $40 | 1 | Pop | 11 | WSS | Britain | War |
2005 | Smithsonian | Black | Warfare in the Eighteenth Century | 240 | $18 | 0 | Ac | 100 | Multiple | Europe | Survey |
2005 | Sussex Academic | Glozier | Marshal Schomberg 1615-1690: The Ablest Soldier Of His Age – International Soldiering And The Formation Of State Armies In Seventeenth-century Europe | 249 | $35 | 0 | Ac | 75 | Multiple | Netherlands | Biography |
2005 | Thomas Dunne | Pavkovic | Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World AD 1500 – AD 1763: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics | 256 | $30 | 1 | Pop | 263 | Multiple | Europe | Survey |
2005 | Wiley | Spencer | Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of the French at Blenheim | 384 | $35 | 1 | Pop | 10 | WSS | Britain | Battle |
2005 | Yale | Stoyle | Soldiers and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War | 320 | $50 | 1 | Ac | 20 | BCW | Britain | Army |
2006 | Ashgate | Dutra | Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World: The Orders of Christ, Santiago And Avis | 370 | $180 | 1 | Ac | 300 | Multiple | Portugal | Army |
2006 | Cambridge | Mallett | The Military Organization of a Renaissance State: Venice c. 1400 to 1617 | 544 | $69 | 0 | Ac | 217 | Multiple | Italy | W&S |
2006 | Castle | Duffy | Fire and Stone: The Science of Fortress Warfare, 1660-1860 | 207 | $10 | 0 | Pop | 200 | Multiple | Europe | Siege |
2006 | Greenhill | Turnbull | The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War | 256 | $35 | 1 | Pop | 165 | Multiple | Europe | Survey |
2006 | Oxford | Conway | War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland | 370 | $140 | 1 | Ac | 50 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2006 | Oxford | Manning | An Apprenticeship in Arms: The Origins of the British Army 1585-1702 | 496 | $199 | 1 | Ac | 117 | Multiple | Britain | Army |
2006 | Oxford | Storrs | The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700 | 288 | $155 | 1 | Ac | 35 | 9YW | Spain | Country |
2006 | Palgrave Macmillan | Armstrong | Protestant War: The ‘British’ of Ireland and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms | 320 | $89 | 1 | AcPop | 20 | BCW | Britain | W&S |
2006 | Pen & Sword | Falkner | Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles | 144 | $25 | 0 | Pop | 10 | WSS | Britain | Battle |
2006 | Pennsylvania | Plank | Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire | 272 | $55 | 1 | Ac | 10 | ’45 | Britain | War |
2006 | Potomac | Black | War in European History, 1494-1660. The Essential Bibliography | 240 | $35 | 0 | Ac | 166 | Multiple | Europe | Reference |
2006 | Scholar’s Shelf | Watson | Wallenstein, soldier under Saturn | 488 | $39 | 0 | Pop | 16 | 30YW | Austria | Biography |
2006 | Tauris | Chambers | Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe | 272 | $84 | 1 | Ac | 260 | Multiple | Italy | RWP |
2007 | Ashgate | Memegalos | George Goring (1608-1657): Caroline Courtier and Royalist General | 414 | $135 | 1 | Ac | 49 | Multiple | Britain | Biography |
2007 | Boydell | Harari | Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 | 248 | $25 | 0 | Ac | 450 | Multiple | Europe | Battle |
2007 | Brill | Ostwald | Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession | 390 | $181 | 1 | Ac | 11 | WSS | Europe | Siege |
2007 | Brill | McCullough | Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France | 273 | $138 | 1 | Ac | 55 | WSS | France | W&S |
2007 | Greenhill | Urban | Bayonets for Hire: Mercenaries at War, 1550-1789 | 304 | $40 | 1 | Pop | 239 | Multiple | Europe | Army |
2007 | Greenwood | Showalter | Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Early Modern World | 320 | $65 | 1 | Ac | 280 | Multiple | Europe | Biography |
2007 | Hambledon Continuum | Childs | The Williamite Wars in Ireland, 1688-1691 | 464 | $30 | 0 | Ac | 10 | 9YW | Britain | War |
2007 | Longman | Gentles | The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms 1638-1652 | 544 | $52 | 0 | AcPop | 14 | BCW | Britain | War |
2007 | Longman | Szabo | The Seven Years War in Europe: 1756-1763 | 536 | $54 | 0 | AcPop | 10 | 7YW | Europe | War |
2007 | Longman | Stevens | Russia’s Wars of Emergence 1460-1730 | 352 | $54 | 0 | AcPop | 270 | Multiple | Russia | Country |
2007 | Longman | Aksan | Ottoman Wars 1700-1870: An Empire Besieged | 624 | $50 | 0 | AcPop | 170 | Multiple | Turkey | Country |
2007 | Pen & Sword | Wanklyn | Decisive Battles of the English Civil War | 240 | $40 | 1 | Pop | 10 | BCW | Britain | Battle |
2007 | Routledge | SchumannSchweizer | The Seven Years War: A Transatlantic History | 288 | $42 | 0 | Ac | 10 | 7YW | Europe | War |
2007 | Routledge | Davies | Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500-1700 | 272 | $40 | 0 | Ac | 200 | Multiple | Russia | W&S |
2007 | Spellmount | Falkner | Marlborough’s Sieges, 1702-1711 | 304 | $50 | 1 | Pop | 10 | WSS | Britain | Siege |
2007 | Tauris | Raymond | Henry VIII’s Military Revolution: The Armies of Sixteenth-Century Britain and Europe | 256 | $100 | 1 | Ac | 38 | Multiple | Britain | Country |
2007 | Tauris | Stein | Guarding the Frontier: Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe | 264 | $85 | 1 | Ac | 100 | Multiple | Turkey | Siege |
2008 | Ashgate | Finlay | Venice Besieged: Politics and Diplomacy in the Italian Wars, 1494-1534 | 316 | $145 | 1 | Ac | 40 | Naples1 | Italy | Country |
2008 | Boydell | Bull | ‘The Furie of the Ordnance’: Artillery in the English Civil Wars | 208 | $90 | 1 | Ac | 10 | BCW | Britain | War |
2008 | Boydell | Grummit | The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 | 240 | $90 | 1 | Ac | 122 | Multiple | Britain | Siege |
2008 | Boydell | Willis | Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare | 272 | $50 | 1 | Ac | 100 | Multiple | Europe | Naval |
2008 | Boydell | Potter | Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c. 1480-1560 | 367 | $99 | 1 | Ac | 80 | ValHab | France | W&S |
2008 | Brill | Lawrence | The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645 | 444 | $203 | 1 | Ac | 42 | BCW | Britain | W&S |
2008 | Cambridge | Lynn | Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe | 252 | $25 | 0 | Ac | 280 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2008 | Greenwood | Nolan | Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization | 656 | $150 | 1 | Ac | 65 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2008 | Harper Perennial | Holmes | Marlborough: Britain’s Greatest General | 512 | 1 | Pop | 27 | WSS | Britain | Biography | |
2008 | Oklahoma | Spring | With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 | 408 | $20 | 0 | Ac | 10 | ARW | Britain | Battle |
2008 | Oxford | Donagan | War in England 1642-1649 | 400 | $35 | 0 | Ac | 10 | BCW | Britain | War |
2008 | Oxford | Cahill | Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage | 256 | $110 | 1 | Ac | 50 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2008 | Oxford | Grummit | War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559 | 400 | $150 | 1 | Ac | 82 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2008 | Oxford | Tracy | The Founding of the Dutch Republic: War, Finance, and Politics in Holland, 1572-1588 | 320 | $135 | 1 | Ac | 16 | DR | Netherlands | W&S |
2008 | Palgrave Macmillan | Harari | The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 | 408 | $105 | 1 | AcPop | 550 | Multiple | Europe | W&S |
2008 | Random House | Crowley | Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World | 368 | $16 | 0 | Pop | 11 | Multiple | Turkey | Country |
2009 | Basic Books | Simms | Three victories and a defeat: the rise and fall of the first British Empire, 1714-1783 | 800 | $40 | 1 | Pop | 69 | Multiple | Britain | War |
2009 | Brill | González de León | The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659 | 408 | $203 | 1 | Ac | 92 | DR | Spain | Biography |
2009 | Cambridge | Rapple | Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture: Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1597 | 350 | $116 | 1 | Ac | 39 | Tyrone | Britain | W&S |
2009 | Harvard | Wilson | The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy | 1,024 | $23 | 1 | AcPop | 30 | 30YW | Germany | War |
2009 | Harvard | Almond | Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds | 256 | $20 | 0 | Ac | 410 | Multiple | Turkey | RWP |
2009 | Leonaur | Malleson | Battles in Germany, 1631-1704: Decisive Conflicts of the Thirty Years’ War and War of Spanish Succession to Blenheim | 352 | $31 | 0 | Pop | 73 | Multiple | Europe | Battle |
2009 | Nebraska | Dull | The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 | 268 | $19 | 0 | Ac | 165 | Multiple | Europe | Naval |
2009 | Palgrave Macmillan | Wolfe | Walled Towns and the Shaping of France: From the Medieval to the Early Modern Era | 272 | $90 | 1 | AcPop | 850 | Multiple | France | W&S |
2009 | Pen & Sword | Roberts | Cromwell’s War Machine: The New Model Army 1645-1660 | 288 | $26 | 0 | Pop | 15 | BCW | Britain | Army |
2009 | Pen & Sword | Mallett | Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy | 304 | $40 | 0 | Pop | 100 | Multiple | Italy | Army |
2009 | Rochester | Dee | Expansion and crisis in Louis XIV’s France: Franche-Comté and absolute monarchy, 1674-1715 | 259 | $80 | 1 | Ac | 41 | WSS | France | W&S |
2010 | Ashgate | Pugliatti | Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition | 260 | $100 | 1 | Ac | 27 | Multiple | Britain | RWP |
2010 | Boydell | van Nimwegen | The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688 | 584 | $130 | 1 | Ac | 100 | Multiple | Netherlands | Country |
2010 | Brill | Murdoch | The Terror of the Seas? Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 | 448 | $199 | 1 | Ac | 200 | Multiple | Britain | Naval |
2010 | Cambridge | Owen | War at Sea under Queen Anne, 1702-1708 | 380 | $34 | 0 | Ac | 10 | WSS | Britain | Naval |
2010 | Cambridge | Pollak | Cities at War in Early Modern Europe | 370 | $99 | 1 | Ac | 270 | Multiple | Europe | Siege |
2010 | Johns Hopkins | Sandberg | Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France | 424 | $60 | 1 | Ac | 37 | FWR | France | W&S |
2010 | McFarland | Lepage | Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV: An Illustrated History of Fortifications and Siegecraft | 300 | $50 | 1 | Pop | 55 | Multiple | France | Siege |
2010 | Pickering & Chatto | Bannerman | Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain: British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739-1763 | 264 | $100 | 1 | Ac | 24 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2011 | Ashgate | Smith | Royalist Agents, Conspirators and Spies: Their Role in the British Civil Wars, 1640-1660 | 252 | $115 | 1 | Ac | 20 | BCW | Britain | War |
2011 | Brill | Potter | Henry VIII and Francis I | 584 | $243 | 1 | Ac | 10 | ValHab | Europe | War |
2011 | Frontline | Urban | Matchlocks to Flintlocks: Warfare in Europe and Beyond 1500-1700 | 304 | $50 | 1 | Pop | 200 | Multiple | Europe | Army |
2011 | Longman | Baugh | The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763: Britain and France in a Great Power Contest | 752 | $50 | 1 | AcPop | 10 | 7YW | Europe | War |
2011 | Manchester | Klingelhofer | Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland | 192 | $85 | 1 | Ac | 63 | Multiple | Britain | Siege |
2011 | North Carolina | Gruber | Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution | 360 | $55 | 1 | Ac | 10 | ARW | Britain | W&S |
2011 | Oxford | Lee | Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 | 352 | $35 | 1 | Ac | 365 | Multiple | Britain | W&S |
2011 | Palgrave Macmillan | Tlusty | The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms | 384 | $95 | 1 | Ac | 250 | Multiple | Germany | W&S |
Some general notes about the book list and its variables:
- I list 182 titles, but I have undoubtedly underestimated the number of popular works on EMEMH; you can tell my interest in the late 17C-early 18C, for example, by the number of popular titles on Marlborough and Vauban. Also, I did not include many biographies of people like Cromwell unless the author primarily focused on their military activities. See the earlier list for the methodology on the selection of titles. Let me know in the comments of any relevant titles that I missed.
- Publishers change names and disappear, rights to their books are purchased by other presses and republished, some books go out of print and then get republished as a paperback, and used copies tend to circulate online for quite some time unless a press has a print on-demand. The publishers and years listed are not necessarily that of the original edition.
- The prices are drawn from Amazon’s prices (U.S.) in the second week of December 2011. I relied on Amazon because it was easiest to look up, and long gone are the days when publishers would print the price of the book right on the back cover. With more research one could find the more useful original list price at the time of publication (instead of 2011 U.S. dollars) by looking at old publisher catalogs, old copies of Books in Print, reviews in journals, etc. But this is an informal exercise, so I’ll leave it to the real historians of the book if they’re interested in that. With the 2011 prices you can get a sense, nonetheless, of how much original list prices have been rising over the years.
- I used Amazon’s publisher list price, not any discounted price they might offer.
- I distinguished the price for hardcover vs. paperback books. For space considerations, here I only show the $ column, which indicates the cheapest list price for the book: if the book was available in paper, I used that price, otherwise the hardcover price is used. These may change if publishers decide to offer paperback to titles with decent sales. It is also possible that books from the past few years might eventually be published in paper at some point in the future, but the hardcover sales haven’t accumulated yet for a press to make that judgment. The same goes for the PB? field.
- In the price column I only included books that were still sold by the press, i.e. I excluded the prices of used books. In some cases, this means that a few works don’t have any price info, since they are apparently out of print in hardcover and not available in paperback (10 titles of the 177, or 5%).
- Using 2011 dollars makes it difficult to compare original list prices for books published years apart. However, it appears that the original list price tends to be “sticky,” and doesn’t increase as much as the list price of new publications. Regardless, the prices of some books continuously in print can change over the years, e.g. I’m pretty sure my own book has increased in price $20 or more since it first came out four years ago.
- It’s impossible to tell to what extent any subventions were paid by the authors in order to decrease the list price of their book. The market for such books requires different data, that would be much more difficult to collect, such as sales.
- I created the other variables based on my impressions and/or knowledge of the content: the press as an academic vs. popular publisher, the time period the book covers (# years) either from info in the title or the subject, the geographical scope of the work…
- For the number (#) of years covered by the book, I used the following rough methodology: 1) subtract the year range if it existed in the title; 2) assign it an even 100 years if the title used is a century; 3) use the length of a war if that is in the title, 4) use the adult life span of the subject if the work is a biography. Otherwise I ballparked it. If any of the resulting numbers were less than ten years, I rounded them up to ten, because even with a case study of a specific battle or siege that only lasts a few days, the author will usually provide background on the war, the fortifications, the commander, etc. I recognize that many works use generic start and end dates (1648, 1815…), and that individual authors may expand their title dates beyond their real focus, while others cover far more than the years mentioned in the title. And some authors may even cover only a few discrete episodes within a much longer time frame. But more precision than my above method requires a lot more time and patience than I have for this project.
- The Popular/Academic/Academic Popular distinction is an admittedly artificial and somewhat subjective one. Academic publishers presumably want to find popular books so their sales can subsidize specialized literature, so books published by academic presses that were intended for a broader audience were given the hybrid of Academic/Popular. Also, a non-academic reader interested in a particular topic will undoubtedly get academic books on the subject if they are available. And of course academics may also cite popular books if they are relevant to their subject.
- I’m not sure how much the overall academic publishing market has changed due to digital editions and online piracy of books, a global used-book market, the collapse of university funding for their presses, the collapse of library acquisition budgets, and other factors. But presumably a lot.
- The number of pages also came from Amazon – these can often vary by 10 or more, not to mention whether you cound the index, etc.
- The Country field is based on modern broad boundaries, and is meant to indicate current interest in particular parts of Europe. It is also expansive, in that I aggregated anything in the British isles into Britain, even if a work was focused only on Scotland, or Ireland. If the book discussed more than one country, I assigned it the Country that it focused the most on; if it gave substantial and equal coverage to more than one country, I assigned it “Europe.” A book promising a discussion of all of Europe was awarded “Europe”, although in most cases any one author will have a more limited geographical focus. (FWIW, I have more than a dozen keyword categories in my bibliographic database distinguishing all of these different types of keywords, but I didn’t want to reproduce them all here.)
- Subject: This is most subjective categorization of them all. I chose a single word to categorize each book. In many cases, several categories might have applied to a single work, but I chose the one which best represented the intended audience most likely to read the book. As an example, I classified a book on the Scots in the 30YW under the “Country” (i.e. on Scottish military history) category, rather than the “War” category, because in my judgment those interested in the Scottish military experience (regardless of which war) will be more likely to read it than someone interested in one of the 30YW’s other myriad aspects. I also included a book in the Country category if the focus of the work was on a region of Europe, e.g. the Mediterranean. I also included works that studied a group of people under the “Biography” category. The “War & Society” category is a catch-all category, including works on military administration, war and politics, war and its economic connections, war and its social impact, war and art…
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