Problematics of Military Power

Michael Drake is a teaching fellow at the School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD in 1998, on which this book is based.

Introduction; Part 1 Part One: Ancient; Chapter 1 Ancient Rome and Historical Sociology; Chapter 2 The Roman Republic; Chapter 3 The Imperial Order; Chapter 4 From Pax Romana to the Order of Feud; Part 2 Part Two: Medieval; Chapter 5 Medieval History and Historical Sociology; Chapter 6 Encastellation; Chapter 7 Three Orders of Violence; Chapter 8 Medieval Formations: War-State and Law-State; Part 3 Part Three: Late Medieval; Chapter 9 The Hundred Years War; Chapter 10 A Military Domain; Part 4 Part Four: Early Modern; Chapter 11 Two Sources of Military Modernity: Burgundy and the Swiss; Chapter 12 Republic and Monarchy: Two Texts on Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence; Chapter 13 The Early Modern Army and Historical Sociology; Chapter 14 Military Reformations; Chapter 15 Military and Civil Society; Chapter 16 Reflections; Select Bibliography; Index;