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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Newell, Margaret Ellen. Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Nowosadtko, Jutta. "Soldatenpartnerschaften: Stehendes Heer und weibliche Bevölkerung im 18. Jahrhundert." In Landsknechte, Soldatenfrauen und Nationalkrieger: Militär, Krieg und Geschlechterordnung im historischen Wandel, edited by Karen Hagemann and Pröve, Ralf, 297-321. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Nussbaum, Arthur. A Concise History of the Law of Nations. New York: MacMillan, 1947.
Onnekink, David. War and Religion after Westphalia, 1648-1713. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
Osman, Julia. Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
O’Toole, Rachel Sarah. Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2012.
Palmer, Robert R. "Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bülow: From Dynastic to National War." In Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, edited by Felix Gilbert, Craig A. Gordon and Peter Paret, 91-119. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Palmer, Jennifer L. Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic. Philidelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Paoletti, Ciro. "War, 1688–1812." In A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe, edited by Peter H. Wilson, 464-478. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Cambridge History of Warfare. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Thirty Years’ War. London: Routledge, 1997.
Parrott, David. "Armed Forces." In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime, 59-74. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Parrott, David. "From Military Enterprise to Standing Armies: War, State and Society in Western Europe, 1600–1700." In European Warfare 1350–1750, 74-95. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Parrott, David. "Had a Distinct Template for a ‘Western Way of War’ Been Established before 1800?" In The Changing Character of War, edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, 48-63. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Parrott, David. The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Plowden, Alison. Women All on Fire: The Women of the English Civil War. Thrupp, UK: Sutton Publishing, 1998.
Proctor, III, Frank T. "Damned Notions of Liberty": Slavery Culture, and Power in Colonial Mexico, 1640-1769. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Roberts, Michael. "Gustav Adolf and the Art of War." In Essays in Swedish History, 56-81. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
Robinson, Paul. Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Winning of the West. New York: Putnam.
Ross, Sarah, and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann. Women Poets of the English Civil War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Rowlands, Alison. Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg 1561-1652. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
Ruff, Julius R. Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 In New approaches to European history ;; 22; Variation: New approaches to European history ;; 22. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Schroeder, Paul W. The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
Schulte, Regina. Die verkehrte Welt des Krieges: Studien zu Geschlecht, Religion und Tod. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Scully, Pamela, and Diana Paton. Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
Sheppard, Eric William. Red Coat: an Anthology of the British Soldier During the Last Three Hundred Years. London: Batchworth Press, 1952.
Shoemaker, Nancy. Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present. New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2013.
Slater, Sandra, and Fay A. Yarbrough. Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400–1850. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
Sleeper-Smith, Susan. Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792. Williamsburg, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018.

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