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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Heineman, Elizabeth D. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011.
Hendrix, Scott N. "In the Army: Women, Camp Followers and Gender Roles in the British Army in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1765." In A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military, edited by Gerard J. DeGroot and Corinna Peniston-Bird, 33-48. Harlow, UK: Longman, 2000.
Higman, Barry William. A Concise History of the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hobson, James. The English Civil War: Fact and Fiction. Havertown, PA: Pen & Sword History, 2019.
Hohrath, Daniel, and Sönke Neitzel. Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert In Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. The German Atrocities in the War of 1870/71 Using the Example of the Bavarians. Paderborn, Germany: Schöningh, 2008.
Ingrao, Charles, Nikola Samardzic, and Jovan Pesalj. The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2011.
Jones, Karen R., Giacomo Macola, and David Welch. A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Kennedy, Catriona, and Matthew McCormack. Soldiering in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850: Men of Arms. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Kinkel, Sarah. Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy In Harvard historical studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Kroener, Bernhard R. ""… und ist der jammer nit zu beschreiben": Geschlechterbeziehungen und Überlebensstrategien in der Lagergesellschaft des Dreißigjährigen Krieges." In Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel, edited by Karen Hagemann and Ralf Pröve, 279-296. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Kutz, Martin. Deutsche Soldaten: Eine Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
Lahrkamp, Helmut. Jan von Werth: Sein Leben nach archivalischen Quellenzeugnissen. Cologne: Verlag der Löwe Reykers, 1962.
Lee, Wayne E. Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
LeMaster, Michelle. Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial Southeast. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Linch, Kevin, and Matthew McCormack. Britain's Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715-1815. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
Little, Ann M. Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Luh, Jürgen. Kriegskunst in Europa 1650–1800. Cologne: Böhlau, 2004.
Lynn, John A. "Essential Women, Necessary Wives, and Exemplary Soldiers: The Military Reality and Cultural Representation of Women’s Military Participation (1600–1815)." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 93-136. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Lynn, John A. Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Lynn, John A. "Revisiting the Great Fact of War and Bourbon Absolutism: The Growth of the French Army during the Grand Siècle." In Guerra y sociedad en la Monarquía Hispánica: Política, estrategia y cultura en la Europa moderna, 1500-1700, edited by Enrique García Hernán and Davide Maffi, 49-74. Vol. 1. Madrid: Laberinto, 2006.
Lynn, John A. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714. London: Longman, 1999.
Lynn, John A. Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
MacLeitch, Gail D. Imperial Entanglements: Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Macleod, Jenny. Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Martino, Gina. Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
McCormack, Matthew. Embodying the Militia in Georgian England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
McCormack, Matthew. The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Moitt, Bernard. Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Mortimer, Geoff. "War by Contract, Credit and Contribution: The Thirty Years War." In Early Modern Military History, 1450–1815, 101-117. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Münkler, Herfried. The New Wars. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.

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