Edited by Larry Neal, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US

• Volume I War from antiquity to artillery: the wars of antiquity; the wars of the Middle Ages; the wars of Early Modern Europe. Volume II War in the 18th and 19th centuries: war of League of Augsburg and war of the Spanish Succession; Seven Years War; American War of Independence; the wars of the Modern Age - French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War. Volume III War in the 20th century: World War I; World War II; Korean War; the Cold War; the Gulf War.