Delineates the evolution of uniforms from the wars of European succession to the present, placing their development in historical contexts and considering such factors as geography, strategy, and technological developments.

1. European Wars of Eighteenth-Century Absolutism 1700-63 -- 2. The American War of Independence 1775-83 -- 3. Wars of the French Revolution and the Coalitions 1792-1803 -- 4. The Napoleonic Wars 1800-15 -- 5. Britain's Colonial Wars in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. The Rise of the Mass Armies 1815-60 -- 7. The American Civil War and After 1860-1914 -- 8. The First World War and the Restless Peace 1914-39 -- 9. The Second World War 1939-45 -- 10. The Armies of the Atomic Age -- the World after 1945.