Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining Game Theory and its History, Chapter 2. Strategic Interdependence: Cournot and Duopoly Chapter, 3. Cournot's Heirs and Asymmetry, Chapter 4. Strategic Interdependence: Bilateral Monopoly, Chapter 5. Lewis Caroll and the Game of Politics, Chapter 6. Early Mathematical Models of Conflict: the Contributions of Lanchester and Richardson, Chapter 7. The Minimax Approach to Noncooperative Strategic Games from Waldegrave to Borel Chapter, 8. From Games of Pure Chance to Strategic Games: French Probabilists and Early Game Theory, Chapter 9. Von Neumann and Morgenstern in Historical Perspective References