Examines the place of warfare in human culture and the human impulse toward violence.

Filed in the multiple copy area, first floor. Includes maps of: Siege of Limerick, 1691; World Fortification Zones, 1500.Includes maps of: World, Showing Non-military and Military Zones; Aztec Empire, 15th Century; Egypt - the Middle (2040-1783 B.C.) and New (1560-1085 B.C.) Kingdoms; Siege of Limerick, 1691; World Fortification Zones; Assyrian Empire in the Reign of Sargon II, 710-705 B.C. ; Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and His Successors, 1204-1405; Roman Empire at the Death of Trajan, A.D. 117; Near East, c. 1174; Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1943; American Civil War, 1861-1865 - Railways and Principal Rivers; Europe - First World War, 1914-1918.

War in human history; Interlude: limitation on warmaking -- Stone; Interlude: fortification -- Flesh; Interlude: armies -- Iron; Interlude: logistics and supply -- Fire.