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According to Wikipedia, Peter Hamish Wilson, FRHistS is a British historian. Since 2015, he has held the Chichele Professor of the History of War chair at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Biography Wilson studied at the University of Liverpool and at the Jesus College of the University of Cambridge . He specialized in German history and military history. In 1990 he became a lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Sunderland and in 1994, at Newcastle University. In 1998, he returned to Sunderland as a Reader, and was subsequently Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sunderland from 2001 to 2006. From 2007 to 2015 he was Grant Professor of History at the University of Hull. In 2011 he was Visiting Fellow at the Center of Excellence of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. He also held additional teaching assignments at High Point University, High Point, North Carolina, and National War College, Washington, DC. In 2015 he succeeded Hew Strachan as holder of the Chichele Professor of the History of War chair at All Souls College, University of Oxford.

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The myth of the ‘First Great Debate’ (1998) (207)
Music and the Muses (2004) (192)
A Prospective Longitudinal Study of Sexual Recidivism Among Adolescent Sex Offenders (2004) (152)
The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage (2000) (152)
Defining Military Culture (2008) (92)
Regime Theory and the English School of International Relations: A Comparison (1992) (85)
Greek theatre in the fourth century B.C. (2014) (84)
Music and the Muses: The Culture of ’Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City by Penelope Murray and Peter Wilson edd. (2004) (83)
Thinkers of the Twenty Years' Crisis Inter-War Idealism Reassessed (1995) (65)
The Peculiarities of German History (2004) (57)
Drama Outside Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC (2015) (54)
Performance, iconography, reception : studies in honour of Oliver Taplin (2008) (52)
The English School Meets the Chicago School: The Case for a Grounded Theory of International Institutions (2012) (51)
The English school of international relations: a reply to Sheila Grader (1989) (42)
Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War (2009) (35)
Europe's tragedy : a new history of the Thirty Years War (2010) (33)
The Politics of Military Recruitment in Eighteenth‐Century Germany (2002) (33)
Radicalism for a Conservative Purpose: The Peculiar Realism of E. H. Carr (2001) (33)
The Greek theatre and festivals : documentary studies (2007) (33)
The Causes of the Thirty Years War 1618–48 (2008) (30)
German armies : war and German politics, 1648-1806 (1998) (28)
The International Theory of Leonard Woolf: A Study in Twentieth-Century Idealism (2003) (27)
The international theory of Leonard Woolf (2003) (26)
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (2016) (25)
The English School’s Approach to International Law (2009) (25)
Beyond Non-Intervention (1993) (25)
Absolutism in central Europe (2000) (25)
Gilbert Murray and International Relations: Hellenism, liberalism, and international intellectual cooperation as a path to peace (2010) (24)
The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 (1999) (20)
Strategies and resources (1995) (20)
The German ‘Soldier Trade’ Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries: A Reassessment (1996) (19)
Manning's quasi‐masterpiece: the nature of international society revisited (2004) (17)
A companion to eighteenth-century Europe (2008) (16)
The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms (2012) (14)
Social Militarization in Eighteenth-Century Germany (2000) (13)
STILL A MONSTROSITY? SOME REFLECTIONS ON EARLY MODERN GERMAN STATEHOOD (2006) (13)
The international consequences of Brexit: an English School analysis (2019) (13)
Dithyramb in context (2013) (13)
War, state, and society in Württemberg, 1677-1793 (1995) (12)
Classics of International Relations : Essays in Criticism and Appreciation (2013) (12)
The Economic Factor in International Relations (2001) (11)
Spain and the Netherlands (2010) (10)
German Women and War, 1500-1800 (1996) (10)
Bolstering the Prestige of the Habsburgs: The End of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 (2006) (9)
The economic factor in international relations: a brief introduction (2001) (9)
The glue of democracy (2011) (9)
Retrieving cosmos: Gilbert Murray's thought on international relations (2007) (8)
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe. Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires and International Change (2010) (8)
IG I³ 102 and the Tradition of Proclaiming Honours at the Tragic "Agon" of the Athenian City Dionysia (2009) (8)
Germany under the Old Regime, 1600-1790 (1992) (8)
E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis: Appearance and Reality in World Politics (2009) (8)
Idealism in international relations (2011) (7)
Leonard Woolf: Still Not Out of the Jungle? (2008) (7)
From Reich to Revolution: German History 1558-1806 (2004) (7)
War in German Thought from the Peace of Westphalia to Napoleon (1998) (7)
The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 (2008) (7)
The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 : a European perspective (2012) (6)
The power to defend, or the defence of power: The conflict between duke and estates over defence provision, Württemberg 1677–1793 (1992) (5)
A wellbeing framework (2018) (5)
Where are we now in the debate about the first great debate (2012) (5)
The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook (2010) (5)
From Reich to Revolution (2004) (5)
Attacking Hitler in England: patriarchy, class and war in Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas (2013) (5)
Introduction: Mousikē, not Music (2004) (4)
Prussia as a Fiscal-Military State, 1640–1806 (2016) (4)
The business of war untangled: Cities as fiscal-military hubs in Europe (1530s–1860s) (2020) (4)
Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) (2011) (4)
Choruses for Sale in Thorikos? A Speculative Note on SEG 34, 107 (2007) (4)
Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire 1700-40 (2014) (4)
PRUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, 1740–1786* (2008) (4)
The New Europe Debate in Wartime Britain (2019) (3)
Imperial and European Politics (2004) (3)
War in Early Modern German History (2001) (3)
The Meaning of Empire in Central Europe around 1800 (2009) (3)
Civilians and War in Europe, 1618–1815: Was the Thirty Years War a ‘Total War’? (2012) (3)
German Armies: War and German Society, 1648-1806 (1998) (3)
Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations and peace between the wars (2015) (3)
Foreign military labour in Europe’s transition to modernity (2020) (3)
New Approaches under the Old Regime (2004) (2)
New Perspectives on The Thirty Years War (2005) (2)
Violence and the Rejection of Authority in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Case of the Swabian Mutinies in 1757 (1994) (2)
The Military and Rural Society in the Early Modern PeriodConference at the University of Rostock, 8–9 October 1999 (2000) (2)
Holy Roman Empire (2016) (2)
An Empire For Our Times? A Discussion of Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History (2017) (2)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Princely aims and policy-making (1995) (2)
Thermal Instability in MOSFET's under Linear Mode Operation (2006) (2)
Atrocities in the Thirty Years War (2016) (2)
International sanctions as a primary institution of international society (2019) (2)
Immigration policies that would enhance the well-being of New Zealanders (2017) (2)
The Old Reich (2011) (1)
Securitization in the Holy Roman Empire 1495–1806 (2019) (1)
Key Institutions and Trends (1999) (1)
Fabian paternalism and radical dissent: Leonard Woolf's Theory of economic imperialism (2005) (1)
Meaningless Conflict? The Character of the Thirty Years War (2012) (1)
The Bee and the Eagle (2009) (1)
1806: The End of the Old Reich (2006) (1)
Gilbert Murray, 1866-1957 (2007) (1)
The Holy Roman Empire Explained (1999) (1)
Power, morality and the remaking of international order: E.H. Carr’s the The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 (2013) (1)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History (1995) (1)
The Thirty Years War (2011) (1)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: The German soldier trade (1995) (1)
Migration, wellbeing and New Zealand (2018) (1)
Innovative Data Collection Technologies for Design Experiments (2007) (1)
DIKSĒN IN THE ORESTEIA OF AESCHYLUS (2006) (1)
War and German politics (1998) (1)
Military culture in the Reich, c. 1680–1806 (2007) (1)
The Sinews of Habsburg Power: Lower Austria as a Fiscal-Military State 1650–1820, by William D. Godsey (2020) (1)
Liberalism and the world circa 1930: Gilbert Murray’s The Ordeal of this Generation (2009) (1)
Pamela Pilbeam (1993), ‘The Insurrectionary Tradition in France 1835–48’, Modern and Contemporary France, 1, pp. 253–64. (2017) (0)
Derek Croxton. Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace. (2015) (0)
The Thirty Years War and German Memory in the Nineteenth Century (review) (2008) (0)
Military organisation and the war economy (2010) (0)
Appendix 1: Emperors, 800– 1806 (2016) (0)
Obituary: Trevor Johnson (1961–2007) (2008) (0)
Book Review: The Paraguayan War. Volume I: Causes and Early Conduct, To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance (2005) (0)
Where we are now (2018) (0)
Book Review: Frederic Spotts (ed.), The Letters of Leonard Woolf (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990, 616pp., £30.00 hbk.) (1991) (0)
Henry Weisser (1981), ‘Chartism in 1848: Reflections on a Non-Revolution’, Albion, 13, pp. 12–26. (2017) (0)
System Needs More Than Band-Aids. (Letters) (2003) (0)
Tragkoerper for electric heating elements and methods for manufacturing such tragkoerper. (1985) (0)
1848 : The Year of Revolutions (2017) (0)
The Great War (1618–48) (2004) (0)
Reviews of Books: Methods/Theory (1999) (0)
Fear and Anxiety Problems (2018) (0)
Social Cosmology, Diplomatics and International Society: C.A.W. Manning and the Study of International Relations (2010) (0)
The Bohemian Revolt and its aftermath (2010) (0)
Appendix: Major German rulers (1998) (0)
Crisis in the Habsburg monarchy (2010) (0)
Heart of Europe (2016) (0)
German Armies, 1648-1806 (1999) (0)
Istvan Deak (1979), ‘An Army Divided: The Loyalty Crisis of the Habsburg Officer Corps in 1848–1849’, Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Geschichte, 8, pp. 207–41. (2017) (0)
The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M. Judson (review) (2018) (0)
Miles Taylor (2000), ‘The 1848 Revolutions and the British Empire’, Past and Present, 166, pp. 146–80. (2017) (0)
Wars, States, and Gender in Early Modern European Warfare, 1600s–1780s (2020) (0)
The Stuarts, the Palatinate and the Thirty Years’ War (2018) (0)
CCC volume 29 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1996) (0)
Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526–1850 . By Paula Sutter Fichtner. London: Reaktion Books. 2008. Pp. 205. Cloth $45.00. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-86189-340-6. (2009) (0)
The Later Thirty Years War: From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia (review) (2004) (0)
H. Hearder (1975), ‘The Making of the Roman Republic, 184–1849’, History, 60, pp. 169–84. (2017) (0)
Book Review: Randolph C. Head, Jenatsch’s Axe: Social Boundaries, Identity, and Myth in the Era of the Thirty Years’ War, University of Rochester Press: Rochester NY, 2008; xvi + 177 pp.; 9781580462761, $70.00 (hbk) (2011) (0)
Book Review: Europe from the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution, 1648-1815 (2005) (0)
The Reich in Action (2004) (0)
War and Religion after Westphalia, 1648–1713, ed. David Onnekink (2011) (0)
Radicals and reactionaries in twentieth-century international thought. Edited by Ian Hall (2017) (0)
Riches, D. (2010). Protestant Cosmopolitanism and Diplomatic Culture. Brandenburg–Swedish Relations in the Seventeenth Century (2014) (0)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Bibliography (1995) (0)
The destruction of Magdeburg, 1631 (2010) (0)
Perceptions of violence in the early modern communications revolution: the case of the Thirty Years War 1618–1648 (2013) (0)
Flight of fancy? (2018) (0)
Migrants, marginal groups and the early modern German state (2000) (0)
Salesmen of State Building? (1969) (0)
Alf Lüdtke (1979), ‘The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism: The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848’, Social History, 4, pp. 175–221. (2017) (0)
Book Review: Leila Luedeking and Michael Edmonds, Leonard Woolf: A Bibliography (Winchester, UK: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1992, 312 pp., £40 hbk.) (1994) (0)
The Feud in Early Modern Germany . By Zmora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. xiv + 211. Cloth $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-11251-2. (2012) (0)
James M. Brophy (2004), ‘Violence Between Civilians and State Authorities in the Prussian Rhineland, 1830–1846’, German History, 22, pp. 1–35. (2017) (0)
For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army from 1619 to 1918. By Richard Bassett.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. Pp. xxiv+592. $45.00. (2017) (0)
Peace implementation, celebration, commemoration (2010) (0)
Karl H. Wegert (1991), ‘Contention with Civility: The State and Social Control in the German Southwest, 1760–1850’, Historical Journal, 34, pp. 349–69. (2017) (0)
Timothy Baycroft (1998), ‘Commemorations of the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic’, Modern and Contemporary France, 6, pp. 155–68. (2017) (0)
Daniel R. Headrick (1976), ‘Spain and the Revolutions of 1848’, European Studies Review, 6, pp. 197–223. (2017) (0)
Roger Price (1982), ‘Techniques of Repression: The Control of Popular Protest in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France’, Historical Journal, 25, pp. 859–87. (2017) (0)
Guy Thomson (2001), ‘Garibaldi and the Legacy of the Revolutions of 1848 in Southern Spain’, European History Quarterly, 31, 353–96. (2017) (0)
The domains of wellbeing (2018) (0)
Mark Levene and Penny Roberts (eds.), The massacre in history. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999.) Pages xvi+296. £47.00. (2001) (0)
Book Reviews : Germany under the Old Regime, 1600-1790. By John G. Gagliardo. London and New York: Longman. 1991. ix + 453 pp. 27.00 cloth; 12.99 paperback (1992) (0)
International Political Theory (2012) (0)
Shorter note. Why Wars Happen. Jeremy Black (1999) (0)
Sheilagh Ogilvie and Bob Scribner (general eds.), Germany: a new social and economic history, vol. I: 1450–1630; vol. II: 1630–1800. (London and New York: Arnold, 1996.) Pages xiv+399 and xvi+426. £19.99 each volume. (1998) (0)
Paul Ginsborg (1974), ‘Peasants and Revolutionaries in Venice and the Veneto, 1848’, Historical Journal, 17, 503–50. (2017) (0)
1. Two Swords (2016) (0)
The Great Elector (2002) (0)
Imperial Defence Integration Through Military Cooperation (2010) (0)
George Handlery (1972), ‘Revolutionary Organization in the Context of Backwardness: Hungary’s 1848’, East European Quarterly, 6, pp. 44–61. (2017) (0)
Mantuan Succession, War of the (1628–1631) (2011) (0)
Political and religious tension in the Empire after 1555 (2010) (0)
Donald J. Mattheisen (1979), ‘Liberal Constitutionalism in the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848: An Inquiry Based on Roll-Call Analysis’, Central European History, 12, pp. 124–42. (2017) (0)
Reviews of Books (2004) (0)
Warfare in Europe (2020) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Joseph Canning and Hermann Wellenreuther (eds.), Britain and Germany compared: nationality, society and nobility in the eighteenth century. (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001.) Pages 239. Euro (D) 15, paperback. (2003) (0)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Carl Eugen, 1744–1793 (1995) (0)
War and Conflict in the Early Modern World, 1500–1700. By Brian Sandberg. War and Conflict through the Ages. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016. Pp. xii+362. $69.95 (cloth); $28.95 (paper); $23.99 (e-book). (2018) (0)
Frederick the Great and Imperial Politics (2007) (0)
Matthias Schulz( 2003), ‘A Balancing Act: Domestic Pressures and International Systemic Constraints in the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers, 1848–1851’, German History, 21, pp. 319–46. (2017) (0)
Stollberg-Rilinger, B. (2015). The Emperor’s Old Clothes. Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire (2016) (0)
Book Review: The Politics of Power. Elites of an Early Modern State in Germany (2003) (0)
Of ‘Master’ and ‘Grand Narratives’ and Their Discontents: Early Modern European Military History (2022) (0)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Carl Alexander, 1733–1737 (1995) (0)
Strategy and the Conduct of War (2014) (0)
Habsburg Imperial Strategy during the Thirthy Years War (2017) (0)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Regent Friedrich Carl, 1677–1693 (1995) (0)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Appendix (1995) (0)
The Holy Roman Empire in the Eighteenth Century (2018) (0)
The Empire, Austria, and Prussia (2009) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2013) (0)
Reviews of Books (1980) (0)
The Cultivation of Monarchy and the Rise of Berlin: Brandenburg‐Prussia, 1700 – Edited by Karin Friedrich and Sara Smart (2012) (0)
Sweden’s search for security and reward, 1631–5 (2010) (0)
Where did we come from (2018) (0)
LATIN AMERICA'S TOTAL WAR (2004) (0)
Carola Lipp and Lothar Krempel (2001), ‘Petitions and the Social Context of Political Mobilization in the Revolution of 1848/49: A Microhistorical Actor-Centred Network Analysis’, International Review of Social History, 46, pp. 151–69. (2017) (0)
State and Society (2004) (0)
Stanley Zucker (1980), ‘German Women and the Revolution of 1848: Kathinka Zitz-Halein and the Humania Association’, Central European History, 13, pp. 237–54. (2017) (0)
THE POLITICS OF MUSIC (2002) (0)
Jonathan Sperber (1992), ‘Festivals of National Unity in the German Revolution of 1848–1849’, Past and Present, 136, pp. 114–38. (2017) (0)
The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History (review) (2009) (0)
The Peace of Westphalia (2010) (0)
‘THE STATE OF GERMANY’, 1569 (2015) (0)
Confessional polarisation? Protestant Union and Catholic League (2010) (0)
The Edict of Restitution, 1629 (2010) (0)
The regency, 1737–1744 (1995) (0)
The Catholic ascendancy (2010) (0)
The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered. ‘Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association’ 1 (2011) (0)
Warfare in Europe 1815-1914 (2006) (0)
Appendix 2: German Kings (2016) (0)
The Peace of Prague, 1635 (2010) (0)
Immigration: doing the right thing for the right reasons (2017) (0)
Book Review: Howard Williams, International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory (London: Macmillan, 1996, 170 pp., no price given) (1997) (0)
Reich and Territories (2004) (0)
The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815–1871, by Bodie A. Ashton (2018) (0)
Imperialism: An Exposition (2003) (0)
War, state and society in Württemberg, 1677–1793: Conclusion (1995) (0)
The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648: A Quatercentenary Perspective (2019) (0)
Swedish intervention 1630 (2010) (0)
Book Review: J.D.H. Miller and R.J. Vincent (eds.), Order and Violence: Hedley Bull and International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 220pp., £25.00hbk.) (1991) (0)
Peace making, 1641–8 (2010) (0)
The Holy Roman Empire and Its Neighbors (1969) (0)
Summary: Under Siege? Defining Siege Warfare in World History (2019) (0)
New views of the old Reich: Recent Contributions to Early Modern German History (1993) (0)
Applying the framework (2018) (0)
Modern migration policy (2018) (0)
International Government: An Exposition (2003) (0)
Alan J. Reinerman (1991), ‘The Failure of Popular Counter-Revolution in Risorgimento Italy: The Case of the Centurions, 1831–1847’, Historical Journal, 34, pp. 21–41. (2017) (0)
The war in western and northern Germany 1621–9 (2010) (0)
Book Review: The Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, Disappeared! Technique of Terror (London: Zed, 1986, 107pp., £16.95 hbk., £2.95 pbk.) (1988) (0)
Wallenstein’s second generalship, 1632–4 (2010) (0)
War and politics, 1635–40 (2010) (0)
League of nations (2011) (0)
Book Review: His Majesty's Rebels: Communities, Factions and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest, 1725-1745 (2001) (0)
Appendix 3: Kings of Italy (2016) (0)

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