Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815

2004
ISBN: 978-1-4039-0696-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded enormously, and new standing armies underpinned the growing absolutist power of princes. Academic experts from both sides of the Atlantic review these developments, discussing the medieval legacy, Spain, the Ottoman Turks, the Thirty Years War, Prussia, the ancien régime and the Napoleonic Wars, together with sea power, the American Revolution and warfare outside the West.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mortimer, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Was there a 'Military Revolution' in the Early Modern Period?; G.Mortimer The Medieval Legacy; C.J.Rogers Spanish Military Power and the Military Revolution; F.González de Léon Ottoman Expansion, 1451-1556: Consolidation of Regional Power, 1451-1503; R.Murphey Ottoman Expansion, 1451-1556: Dynastic Interest and International Power Status, 1503-56; R.Murphey Naval Power, 1450-1650: The Formative Age; J.Glete War by Contract, Credit and Contribution: The Thirty Years War; G.Mortimer The Prussian Military State; D.E.Showalter New Approaches under the Old Regime; P.H.Wilson The Sixty Years War in North America, 1754-1815; F.D.Cogliano Sea Power: The Struggle for Dominance, 1650-1815; R.Harding The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; A.Forrest A Wider Perspective: War Outside the West; J.Black Index

Über Autor(innen)

JEREMY BLACK Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK
FRANCIS D. COGLIANO Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Edinburgh, UK
ALAN FORREST Professor of Modern History, University of York, UK
JAN GLETE Professor History, Stockholm University, Sweden
FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ DE LÉON Associate Professor of History, Springfield College Massachusets, USA
RICHARD HARDING Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster, UK
RHOADS MURPHEY Reader in Ottoman Studies at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
CLIFFORD J. ROGERS Associate Professor of History, United States Military Academy, West Point, USA
DENNIS E. SHOWALTER Professor of History, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA
PETER H. WILSON Professor of Early Modern History, University of Sunderland, UK