Imperial Wars in the Modern Era

Roger L. Ransom is Distinguished Professor of History and Economics and Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He is best known for his work with Richard Sutch on the American Civil War, and his many publications include the books One Kind of Freedom (co-authored with Richard Sutch Cambridge, 2001), Conflict and Compromise (Cambridge, 1990), and The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been (2005). He was President of the Economic History Association in 2005 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Riverside. He also won the Arthur H. Cole Prize from the Economic History Association and the Clio Can Award from the Cliometric Society.Jared McKenzie is a recent graduate of the University of Riverside California. He is eager to apply what he has learned to the publication of a book. He has worked with Roger Ransom on a variety of his previous works dealing with the First World War. This is his first major work in economic history. He brings his background as a creative writer to the cliometric analysis of history.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A New World to Explore.- Chapter 3. The Spanish Empire.- Chapter 4. The Spanish Armada.- Chapter 5. The East India Company and the British Empire.- Chapter 6. The American Revolution.- Chapter 7. The Napoleonic Wars.- Chapter 8. The Mexican-American War.- Chapter 9. The American Civil War.- Chapter 10. The Crimean War.- Chapter 11. CINC: A Measure of Military Capability.- Chapter 12. Bismark’s Wars.- Chapter 13. The Spanish American War.- Chapter 14. The Russo-Japanese War.- Chapter 15. The Schlieffen Plan.- Chapter 16. The Sideshows: Italy, Gallipoli and the Middle East.- Chapter 17. Palestine and Sykes-Picot.- Chapter 18. The Treaty of Brest Litovsk.- Chapter 19. The Ludendorff Offensives.- Chapter 20. The Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression.- Chapter 21. Adolf Hitler and the Rise of National Socialism.- Chapter 22. Operation Barbarossa.- Chapter 23. A Dream of A Rising Sun.- Chapter 24. The Battle of Midway.- Chapter 25. Closing.