Wars and Peace Treaties 1816-Present

BookCover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Maps......Page 9
Chronological list of wars......Page 10
Preface......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 16
1 Post-Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars......Page 18
2 Wars of German Unification......Page 23
3 Wars of Italian Unification......Page 30
4 Decline of the Ottoman Empire......Page 36
5 World Wars and Related Conflicts......Page 57
6 Central Asian Wars......Page 84
7 South Asian Wars......Page 94
8 Anglo-Burmese Wars......Page 103
9 East Asian Wars......Page 108
10 Middle Eastern Wars......Page 131
11 West African Colonial Wars......Page 147
12 Southern African Colonial Wars......Page 158
13 Struggle for the Horn of Africa......Page 164
14 Somalian Wars......Page 172
15 Maghreb Wars......Page 177
16 Post-Independence African Wars......Page 181
17 South American Wars......Page 188
18 North and Central American Wars......Page 207
Appendix A  First World War: Entry of countries into hostilities and declarations of war......Page 214
Appendix B  Second World War: Entry of countries into hostilities and declarations of war......Page 217
Appendix C  Post-Second World War Peace Treaties......Page 224
Appendix D  United Nations Peacekeeping Operations......Page 225
Appendix E  Major arms control agreements......Page 228
Further reading......Page 231
Index......Page 242