This book is the most comprehensive guide available on nineteenth- and twentieth-century wars and their settlement. Covering over 100 wars from 1816 to 1991, each account considers the deeper origins of the conflict, the immediate occasion for the outbreak of hostilities, the course of the fighting, and the terms of political settlement.

Post-Napoleonic Revolutionary Wars, Wars of German Unification, Wars of Italian Unification, The Decline of the Ottoman Empire, World Wars and Related Conflicts, Central Asian Wars, South Asian Wars, Anglo-Burmese Wars, East Asian Wars, Middle Eastern Wars, West African Colonial Wars, Southern African Colonial Wars, Struggle for the Horn of Africa, Somalian Wars, Maghreb Wars, Post-Independence African Wars, South American Wars, North and Central American Wars, Appendices: A-World War I: Entry into hostilities and declarations of war B-World War II: Entry into hostilities and declarations of war C-Post-World War II Peace Treaties D-United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations E-Major Arms Control Agreements Chronological List of Wars