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Early modern warfare is a book category covering military history from roughly the 16th to the late 18th century (with some works extending into the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras), a period defined by the spread of gunpowder weapons and the transformation of armies, navies and fortifications. Books in this category examine the “military revolution” that produced pike-and-shot tactics, trace-italienne forts, professional standing armies, advances in artillery and naval power, and the logistics, administration and state-building that supported sustained campaigns. Subjects range from campaign narratives, battle studies and commanders’ biographies to weapons and technology, siegecraft, naval and colonial warfare, recruitment and discipline, and the social, economic and political effects of sustained war. Works can be military-technical, operational or social-historical, often drawing on maps, primary documents and material culture to explain how warfare reshaped early modern states and societies.

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