Plotting Power: Strategy in the Eighteenth Century

Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields. In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and Europe to the military machinations and plotting of such Asian powers as China, Japan, Burma, Vietnam, and Siam. Europeans coined the term strategy only two centuries ago, but strategy as a concept has been practiced globally throughout history. Taking issue with traditional military historians, Black argues persuasively that strategy was as much political as battlefield tactics and that plotting power did not always involve outright warfare but also global considerations of alliance building, trade agreements, and intimidation.

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 05/22/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780253026088

About the Author

Jeremy Black is a British historian and Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His many books include The Holocaust: History and Memory.