The course covers the history of war and state violence in the period 1850-1950, marking a century of intense globalisation, industrialisation, social and political change. Using case studies from around the globe, the course analyses a range of different types of warfare, including inter-state warfare, revolutionary warfare (‘people’s wars’, warfare from below), imperial warfare and state violence more generally (including genocide), and places them within their historical context. It asks questions about the origins (why was there war in this context?) and conduct (how did this war evolve?) of particular conflicts and the ways in which individuals and communities have experienced, shaped, thought about and represented warfare across time.