The industrialization of warfare, 1850-1914 -- Introduction to Part I / Hans van de Ven -- A hinge in time: the wars of the mid nineteenth century / Hans van de Ven -- War, technology and industrial change, 1850-1914 / Geoffrey Wawro -- War and imperial expansion / Bruce Vandervort -- The non-Western world responds to imperialism, 1850-1914 / John P. Dunn -- War, society, and culture, 1850-1914: the rise of militarism / Roger Chickering -- War-making and restraint by law: the formative years, 1864-1914 / Jean H. Quataert -- The arms race: qualitative and quantitative aspects / Antulio J. Echevarria II -- The era of total war, 1914-1945 -- Introduction to Part II / Roger Chickering -- World War I -- Michael S. Neiberg -- Military captivity in two Worlds Wars: legal frameworks and Camp regimes / Iris Rachamimov -- Military occupations, 1914-45 / Sophie de Schaepdrijver -- Home fronts: the mobilization of resources for total war / Pierre Purseigle -- The search for peace in the interwar period / Carole Fink -- Commemorating war, 1914-1945 / Jay Winter -- Military doctrine and planning in the interwar era / Eugenia C. Kiesling -- The military and the revolutionary state / Roger R. Reese -- World War II / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Post-total warfare, 1945-2005 -- Introduction to Part III / Dennis Showalter -- Military occupations, 1945-1955 / Dennis Showalter -- The wars after the war, 1945-1954 / Odd Arne Westad -- Weapons technology in the two nuclear ages / C. Dale Walton -- Conventional war, 1945-1990 / Williamson Murray -- Wars of decolonization, 1945-1975 / Anthony Clayton -- War and memory since 1945 / Rana Mitter -- The era of American hegemony, 1989-2005 / Mark Moyar.