Secondary Literature on War in the 17th and 18th Centuries

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added selected secondary literature on regions and themes that the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

The most important wars included for this period are:

  • Thirty Years War (1618–48)
  • English Civil War (1642–51)
  • Habsburg-Ottoman Wars (1683–1718)
  • American Colonial Wars (1689–63)
  • War of Spanish Succession (1701–13)
  • Seven Years War (1756–63)

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Stark, Suzanne J. Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
Strachan, Hew. European Armies and the Conduct of War. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.
Tallett, Frank. "Soldiers in Western Europe, c. 1500–1790." In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500–2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 135-168. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Taylor, Philip. Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Terhalle, Hermann. "Der Achtzigjährige Krieg zwischen dem König von Spanien und den Niederlanden in seinen Auswirkungen auf das Westmünsterland an Beispielen." In 1568-1648: Zu den Auswirkungen des Achtzigjährigen Krieges auf die Östlichen Niederlande und das Westmünsterland, edited by Timothy Sodmann, 171-205. Vreden: Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland, 2002.
Tombs, Robert, and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present. London: William Heinemann, 2006.
Townsend, Charles. The Oxford History of Modern War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Tranchant, Jules, and Alfred Ladimir. Les femmes militaires de la France: Depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Cournol, 1866.
Truxes, Thomas M. Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757. London: Routeledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Universiteit Leiden. Leiden University Libraries: Digital Collections. Leiden.
Vidal, Cécile. Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Voelz, Peter M. Slave and Soldier: The Military Impact of Blacks in the Colonial Americas. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.
Vollendorf, Lisa, and Grady C. Wray. "Gender in the Atlantic World: Women’s Writing in Iberia and Latin America." In Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic, edited by Harald E. Braun and Lisa Vollendorf, 99-116. Leiden ; Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2013.
Warren, Wendy Anne. New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016.
Way, Peter. "'The Scum of Every Country, the Refuse of Mankind': Recruiting the British Army in the Eighteenth Century." In Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour, 1500–2000, edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher, 291-330. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.
Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Williams, Noel T. St. John. Redcoats along the Hudson: The Struggle for North America, 1754–63. London: Brassey's, 1997.
Wilson, Peter, and Robert Evans. The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806: A European Perspective. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Wilson, Peter H. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2011.
Wilson, Peter H. "Was the Thirty Years War a 'Total War'?" In Civilians and War in Europe, 1618–1815, edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith, 21-35. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Woollacott, Angela. Gender and Empire (Monograph). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Yagi, George. The Struggle for North America, 1754-1758: Britannia's Tarnished Laurels. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

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