| Description |
xxxix, 468 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
International library of essays on military history |
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International library of essays on military history.
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| Contents |
The 'military revolution', 1560-1660: a myth? / Geoffrey Parker -- The military revolutions of the Hundred Years War / Clifford J. Rogers -- 'Of nimble service': technology, equestrianism and the cavalry arm of early modern European armies / Gervase Phillips -- The cannon conquest of Nasrid Spain and the end of the Reconquista / Weston F. Cook Jr -- Sword and spade: military construction in renaissance Italy, Simon Pepper; The utility of fortifications in early modern Europe: Italian princes and their citadels / David Parrott -- The international mercenary market in the 16th century: Anglo-French competition in Germany / David Potter -- 'Doctors of the military discipline': technical expertise and the paradigm of the Spanish soldier in the early modern period / Fernando González de Leon -- Mutiny and discontent in the Spanish army of Flanders 1572-1607 / Geoffrey Parker -- Middle-class society and the rise of military professionalism: the Dutch army, 1589-1609 / M.D. Feld -- The militarization of the Elizabethan state / John S. Nolan -- Ottoman artillery and European military technology in the 15th and 17th centuries / Gábor Ágoston -- Early-modern colonial warfare and the campaign of Alcazarquivir, 1578 / David Trim -- The Dreadnought revolution of Tudor England / Geoffrey Parker -- So why were the Aztecs conquered, and what were the wider implications?: testing military superiority as a cause of Europe's pre-industrial colonial conquests / George Raudzens -- Strategy and tactics in the Thirty Years' War: the 'military revolution' / David A. Parrott -- The socio-economic relations of warfare and the military mortality crises of the Thirty Years' War / Quentin Outram |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Military art and science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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Military art and science -- Europe -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045720
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| Author |
Hammer, Paul E. J.
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| LC no. |
2006049579 |
| ISBN |
075462529X (alk. paper) |
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9780754625292 (alk. paper) |
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