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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Contamine, Philippe. Histoire militaire de la France: Des origines à 1715, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 1. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Conway, Stephen. "British Soldiers at Home: The Civilian Experience in Wartime, 1740–1783." In Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815, edited by Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft and Hannah Smith, 129-144. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
Cooper, Dana, and Claire Phelan. Motherhood and War: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Creasy, Sir Edward She. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo. New York: International Book Company, 1851.
Crouch, Christian Ayne. Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014.
Cuénin, Micheline. La Derniére des Amazones: Madame de Saint-Baslemont. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1992.
Danley, Mark, and Partick J. Speelman. The Seven Years' War: Global Views. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Delmas, Jean. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1715 à 1871, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 2. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Denzel, Valentina. "Selbstdarstellung und Rezeption der Kriegerin in Frankreich während des 17. Jahrhunderts." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 129-157. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Drévillon, Hervé, and Olivier Wieviorka. Histoire militaire de la France: Des Mérovingiens au Second Empire. Vol. 1. Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2018.
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-hating and Empire-building. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.
Duffy, Christopher. Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660. London: Routledge, 1997.
Duparcq, Édouard de La Barr. Histoire Militaire des Femmes. Paris: Édouard de la Barre Duparcq, 1873.
Enloe, Cynthia. The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
Farge, Arlette. Les fatigues de la guerre: XVIIIe siècle, Watteau. Paris: Le Promeneur, 1996.
Foster, Thomas A. New Men: Manliness in Early America. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
Frey, Linda S., and Marsha Frey. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Europe, 1618-1900. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Friis, Henning Kristian. Scandinavia: Between East and West. 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Fur, Gunlög Maria. A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
Füssel, Marian. "Frauen in der Schlacht? Weibliche Soldaten im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert zwischen Dissimulation und Sensation." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 159-178. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Fynn-Paul, Jeff. War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2014.
Gillespie, Katharine. Women Writing the English Republic, 1625-1681. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Groot, Gerard J. de, and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
Guy, Alan James. Oeconomy and Discipline: Officership and Administration in the British Army, 1714-1763. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1985.
Hagemann, Karen. "Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterverhältnisse: Untersuchungen, Überlegungen und Fragen zur Militär-Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit." In Klio in Uniform? Probleme und Perspektiven einer modernen Militär-Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, edited by Ralf Pröve, 35-88. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 1997.
Hagemann, Karen, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hagemann, Karen. "Venus und Mars: Reflexionen zur einer Geschlechtergeschichte von Militär und Krieg." In Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel, edited by Karen Hagemann and Pröve, Ralf, 13-48. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Hale, J. R. War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 1998.
Hall, Richard. Atlantic Politics, Military Strategy and the French and Indian War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.

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