Importing the European Army: The Introduction of European Military Techniques and Institutions in the Extra-European World, 1600-1914

In a study that extends well beyond military history, the author documents the ways in which five different countries—Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan—refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600. The appropriation of Western military institutions in countries outside of Europe was, the author argues, the major force driving these countries to adopt European administrative, economic, and cultural modes.