Quigley C. Weapons Systems and Political Stability

Washington: University Press of America, 1983. — 1043 p."We assumed that a rich state would win a war. This has never been true. The rich states throughout history have been able to defend their positions only if they saw the relationship between wealth and power and kept prepared (for war)."The Human Condition and Security.
Security and Power.
The Elements of Power.
The General Pattern of Weapon History.The Prehistoric Period, to 4000 B.C.The Archaic Period, 4000 to 1000 B.C.The Alluvial Valleys Cultures.
The Near East Civilizations
Egypt
Mesopotamia, 4000 to 2000 B.C.
Grassland Pastoralism, 3000 to 1000 B.C.
Bronze Age Rivalries, 2000 to 1000 B.C.The Great Transformation and the Rise of Sea Power, 1500 to 500 B.C.Commerce and Threat of Violence.
Maritime Commerce, Piracy and the Rise of Sea Power.
The Competition of Weapons.
The Ideological Transformation.V. Classical Civilization: Growing Offensive Power and Widening Participation, 1000 to 323 B.C.
The Nature of Classical Mediterranean Society.
The Chronology of Classical Mediterranean Society.
Fighters by Birth: the Age of the Nobles, 900-650 B.C.
Fighters by Wealth: the Age of the Tyrants, 650-500 B.C.
Citizen-Soldiers: the Age of Democracy, 500-323 B.C.Classical Civilization: Growing Offensive Power and Decreasing Political Participation, 323 B.C. to A.D. 69The Struggle to Dominate Western Mediterranean.
The Roman System.
Roman Expansion.
The Roman Revolution, 133 B.C. to A.D. 69Growing Defensive Power, Providential Empires and Grassland Offensives, 31 B.C. to A.D. 1200China and the Eastern Grassland Offensive.
The Roman West and the Germanic Migrations.
Defensive Power and Providential Empire.
Western Asia and the Byzantine State.
Islam and the Southern Grassland Offensive.Western Civilizations and its Neighbors A.D. 800-1500
The Roots of Western Civilization.
The Viking and the Normans, 500 to 1250
Russian Civilization, 750 to 1690
The European Dark Age and Early Western Civilization, A.D. 900 to 1500