The projection and limitations of imperial powers 1618 1850 : [this volume contains selected essays from the first four years of the Gunther E. Rothenberg Seminar in Military History ...] Meaningless conflict : the character of the Thirty Years War Peter H. Wilson War and warfare in the age of Louis XIV : the global context Jeremy Black The other side of victory : honorable surrender during the wars of Louis XIV John A. Lynn II Italy Piedmont and French anti Habsburg strategy 1690 1748 Ciro Paoletti Reform and stability : Prussias military dialectic from Hubertusberg to Waterloo Dennis Showalter Russia as a great military power 1762 1825 Janet M. Hartley Aspects of military and operational efffectiveness of the armies of France Austria Russia and Prussia in 1813 Robert M. Epstein The Napoleonic Wars in global perspective Jeremy Black Europes progress and Americas success 1760 1850 Paul W. Schroeder War and revolution in the age of the Risorgimento 1820 1849 Frederick C. Schneid