Great Strategic Rivalries: From The Classical World to the Cold War

681 Pages·2016·16.56 MB·English

by  James Lacey

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Great Strategic Rivalries
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Great Strategic
Rivalries
Edited by
James Lacey
From the Classical World
to the Cold War
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Names: Lacey, James, 1958- editor.
Title: Great strategic rivalries : from the classical world to the Cold War /
edited by James Lacey.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016008635 (print) | LCCN 2016039666 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780190620462 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190620479 () | ISBN 9780190620486
Subjects: LCSH: Strategic rivalries (World politics)—History. | Strategic
rivalries (World politics)—Case studies. | BISAC: HISTORY / World. |
HISTORY / Military / General. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / International
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CONTENTS
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Contributors ix
Introduction 1
James Lacey
Chapter 1 The Primacy of Greece: Athens and Sparta 53
Paul A. Rahe
Chapter 2 The War for Empire: Rome versus Carthage 81
Barry S. Strauss
Chapter 3 Rome’s Greatest Foe: Rome versus Parthia
and Sassanid Persia 103
Kenneth W. Harl
Chapter 4 A Medieval Enterprise: England versus
France I 155
Kelly DeVries
Chapter 5 To Dominate the Mediterranean: Genoa
and Venice 183
Christine Shaw
Chapter 6 Incest, Blind Faith, and Conquest: The Spanish
Hapsburgs and Their Enemies 209
Geoffrey Parker
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Chapter 7 Islam’s Final Push: The Ottomans versus
the Hapsburgs 235
Andrew Wheatcroft
Chapter 8 A Contest for Trade and Empire: England
versus France II 267
Matt J. Schumann
Chapter 9 Napoleon’s Quest: Great Britain versus
France III 289
Michael V. Leggiere
Chapter 10 A New Europe with New Rivalries:
The Franco- German Rivalry 321
Geoffrey Wawro
Chapter 11 A New World in Dispute: The British Empire
versus the American Empire 345
Kathleen M. Burk
Chapter 12 A Whale against an Elephant: Britain
and Germany 371
Williamson Murray
Chapter 13 China, Russia, and Japan Compete to Create
a New World Order 417
S. C. M. Paine
Chapter 14 The Bear against the Imperial Eagle:
Russo- German Competition 449
Robert M. Citino
Chapter 15 Pacific Dominance: The United States
versus Japan 479
William M. Morgan
Chapter 16 A New Global Paradigm: The United States
versus Russia 511
James H. Anderson
Notes 543
Index 633
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MAPS
1 Athens, Sparta, and Their Allies during the
Peloponnesian War 52
2 The Western Mediterranean, ca. 264 bce 80
3 The Parthian Empire, 44 bc– 138 ce 102
4 France and England, Medieval Period 154
5 Europe in 1300 182
6 The Domains of Charles V, 1520 208
7 The Ottoman Empire in 1683 234
8 The Seven Years War 266
9 Napoleon’s Empire at Its Height 288
10 European Alliances, 1878–1 918 320
13 The Japanese in China, 1931– 1941 416
14 World War II in Europe, 1939– 1945 448
15 World War II in the Pacific 478
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CONTRIBUTORS
James H. Anderson serves as the Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Marine Corps University. He is currently coauthoring a book on US policy
toward China. Dr. Anderson earned his doctorate in international relations
from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Kathleen M. Burk was educated at Berkeley and Oxford, where she was also
the Rhodes Fellow for North America and the Caribbean. She is Professor
Emerita of Modern and Contemporary History at University College
London. The author or editor of nearly a dozen books, including Old World,
New World: Britain and America from the Beginning (Little Brown, 2007), she
is currently writing a book on the interaction of the British and American
empires from 1783 to 1972. She also writes on wine.
Robert M. Citino is a Professor of Military History at the University of
North Texas. He is the author of nine books, including the award-w inning
The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943 (University Press of Kansas,
2012). He has taught at the US Military Academy and the US Army War
College.
Kelly DeVries is Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland and
Honorary Historical Consultant of the Royal Armouries, UK. He is the
author, coauthor, or editor of twenty-t wo books and more than eighty articles
on medieval military history and technology.
Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane
University in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in Greek, Roman,
Byzantine, and Crusader history. He is the author of Civic Coins and Civic