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         Wayne E. Lee
                     (Ph.D. Duke 1999)
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Hist 951 Research Seminar in Military History

Hist 351 Global History of Warfare


Syllabi of selected previous courses (subject to change, for information only)

PWAD 350 National and International Security
HIST 351 Global History of Warfare (an older version)
HIST 395.006 Violence in the Early Modern Western World (not the FYS version of this course!)
HIST 292H.002 (was Hist 179H) Early English Exploration and Colonization
HIST 674 Field Methods in Archaeology and History (Summer 2008)

Selected Publications (or, go to my Amazon page here)

  _____ C&S cover _____ empires cover _____ B&B cover_____ Warfare and Culture cover

BOOKS

Barbarians and Brothers:  Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).  Link to Catalog
          History Book Club Review      Review on H-War

  Editor, Empires and Indigenes:  Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World (New York: NYU Press, 2011). Link to Catalog

  Editor, Warfare and Culture in World History (New York: NYU Press, 2011). Link to Catalog

Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001).   Link to Catalog    Link to review (H-South)

Associate Editor for Peter Karsten, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of War and American Society, 3 vols. (New York: Sage Publications, 2005). (also available online through Sage Publications) Link to Catalog 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

"Subjects, Clients, Allies, or Mercenaries?  The British use of Irish and Amerindian military power, 1500–1815," in Britain's Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 1550-1850, eds. H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2012).  Link to Catalog

"The Native American Military Revolution: Firearms, Forts, and Polities," in Empires and Indigenes:  Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World, ed. Wayne E. Lee (New York: NYU Press, 2011), 49-80.

"Projecting Power in the Early Modern World: The Spanish Model?" in Empires and Indigenes:  Intercultural Alliance, Imperial Expansion, and Warfare in the Early Modern World, ed. Wayne E. Lee (New York: NYU Press, 2011), 1-18.

"Plattsburgh 1814:  Warring for Bargaining Chips" in Between War and Peace:  How America Ends Its Wars, ed. Mat Moten (New York: Free Press, 2011) Link to Catalog

"Using the Natives against the Natives:  Indigenes as 'Counterinsurgents' in the British Atlantic, 1500-1800," Defence Studies  Defence Studies 10.1 (2010): 88-105 Available from InformaWorld

"Fortify, Fight, or Flee: Tuscarora and Cherokee Defensive Warfare and Military Culture Adaptation," Journal of Military History   68 (2004): 713-770.  Available through Project Muse

"Mind and Matter--Cultural Analysis in American Military History: A Look at the State of the Field," Journal of American History 93.4 (2007): 1116-42. Available from History Cooperative

"Peace Chiefs and Blood Revenge: Patterns of Restraint in Native American Warfare in the Contact and Colonial Eras," Journal of Military History 71 (2007):  701-41.  Available from Project Muse

"From Gentility to Atrocity: The Continental Army's Ways of War" Army History 62 (Winter 2006): 4-19.  PDF online

"Restraint and Retaliation: The North Carolina Militia and the Backcountry War of 1780-82," in War & Society in the American Revolution, eds. John Resch and Walter Sargent (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007), 163-190. Link to Catalog

- "The Civilian Experience of War during the American Revolution," in Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America: From the Colonial Era to the Civil War, eds. David S. Heidler and Jean T. Heidler (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007).  Link to Catalog

"Early American Ways of War: A New Reconaissance, 1600-1815," Historical Journal 44 (2001): 269-89. Available from JSTOR

Publications in Archaeology

Michael Galaty, Wayne E. Lee, Charles Watkinson, Zamir Tafilica, and Ols Lafe,  "Fort, Tower, or House? Building a Landscape of Settlement in the Shala Valley of High Albania," Internet Archaeology 27 (2009): http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue27/galaty_index.html.

 Heather Rypkema, Wayne E. Lee, Michael Galaty, and Jonathan Haws, “Rapid, In-Stride Soil Phosphate Measurement in Archaeological Survey: A New Method Tested in Loudoun County, Virginia,” Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (2007): 1859-67.  Available online (w/subscription access)

  Michael Galaty, Ols Lafe, Zamir Tafilica, Wayne Lee, Mentor Mustafa, Charles Watkinson, and Antonia Young,  "Projekti i Luginës së Shalës: Fushata 2005," in Seminari i Gjashtë Ndërkombëtar "Shkodra Në Shekuj", Muzeu Historik i Shkodrës (Shkodër:  Muzeu Historik I Shkodrës, 2006), 232-8 (in Albanian with English summary, published in 2007).

"The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project IV: Change and the Human Landscape in a Modern Greek Village in Messenia," Hesperia 70 (2001): 49-98. Available through JSTOR

Personal Info and Other Projects

I specialize in early modern military history, with a particular focus on colonial America, Native Americans, and the British empire. I have just published Barbarians and Brothers, Empires and Indigenes, and Warfare and Culture in World History (all listed and linked above).  I continue to work on issues of war and sovereignty in the English/British relationship with local peoples in Ireland and North America, but at the moment I am mostly absorbed with writing a textbook on world military history for Oxford University Press (tentatively titled Waging War: A Global History). 

I am the series editor for the "Warfare and Culture" series published by New York University Press.   Interested authors should click here for more info.

I have had a long "side career" as an archaeologist, and have done fieldwork in Greece, Albania, Virginia, and Hungary, and I continue to work and publish in that field. Although seemingly tangential to my primary work as a military historian, I have greatly benefited from the experience, having learned much from my anthropologist colleagues and from the close study of landscapes. Some relevant links are provided below.  Most recently I was a co-director for a project in the mountains of northern Albania (the Shala Valley Project, SVP).  We have written up the results of that project and it is under review at the press.  The historical component of the SVP examines how the tribal peoples of those mountains maintained their autonomy from the Ottoman empire while also providing some military service to the empire.  In the winter of 2008 my co-director and I snowshoed into the valley (normally cut off during the winter) to record how the villagers manage during the long cold season; you can read more about that trip here.  In summer 2011 we started up a new project in the Mani, in the southern Peloponnese, in Greece (the Diros Project).

I was an officer in the U.S. Army (combat engineer) and served in Germany, Virginia, and in the Gulf War. When not working or teaching I am a blacksmith and a whitewater kayaker.

Link to full C.V. (or, my academic life on a page, but not regularly updated.)

Diros landscapeLink to the Diros Project (Mani, Greece)

 Link to Shala Valley Project (northern Albania)  (fieldwork completed) Kulla in Theth

Apollonia image Link to the Mallakastro Regional Archaeological Project (Albania) (fieldwork completed) 

Link to the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (Greece) (fieldwork completed) Margeli

LVHAP   Link to the Loudoun Valley Historical Archaeology Project (LVHAP) (field school completed)


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