War and world history

Part 1. Lecture 1. What is war?

Lecture 2. The historiography of war

Lecture 3. The Stone Age war

Lecture 4. Peace, war, and civilization

Lecture 5. The chariot revolution

Lecture 6. The sword revolution

Lecture 7. Steppes, standing armies, and silver trade

Lecture 8. Pirates and Hoplites

Lecture 9. Great empires of West and East

Lecture 10. War and the rise of religion

Lecture 11. The Greek way of war

Lecture 12. An age of war throughout the core.

Part 2. Lecture 13. New empires and an armed peace

Lecture 14. Monotheisms and militaries

Lecture 15. Barbarians and the fall of three empires

Lecture 16. Conquest links the core

Lecture 17. The Middle Ages and a common way of war

Lecture 18. Armored horsemen and global feudalization

Lecture 19. Crusade, Jihad, and Dharma Yuddha

Lecture 20. The Mongols conquer a world

Lecture 21. The business of war in medieval Europe

Lecture 22. The gunpowder revolution

Lecture 23. War at the margins

Lecture 24. A world apart

war in the Americas.

Part 3. Lecture 25. Renaissance and military revolution

Lecture 26. Conquest and colonies

Lecture 27. The gunpowder empires

Lecture 28. More holy wars

Lecture 29. The rise of the regiment

Lecture 30. The wooden world

Lecture 31. The global war to control trade

Lecture 32. Warfare and the nation-state

Lecture 33. War and the making of the Americas

Lecture 34.. War and the unmaking of Africa and Asia

Lecture 35. The industrialization of war

Lecture 36. The nationalization of war.

Part 4. Lecture 37. Race and class at war

Lecture 38. Imperialism and the triumph of the West

Lecture 39. The 19th-century culture of war

Lecture 40. A common way of war

the 20th century

Lecture 41. War and 20th-century ideology

Lecture 42. War and the persistence of nationalism

Lecture 43. Economies and economics at war

Lecture 44. Culture and war in the 20th century

Lecture 45. The weaponization of information

Lecture 46. Guerrilla war and terrorism

Lecture 47. The struggle for peace and justice

Lecture 48. Warfare at the turn of a new century.