Title The first world empire : Portugal, war and military revolution / edited by Hélder Carvalhal, André Murteira and Roger Lee de Jesus

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 277 pages) : illustrations (black and white) Series Warfare and history Warfare and history. Contents Introduction -- Part 1: Fortifications and Military Revolution 1. Negotiating Early-Modernity in Azemmour, Morocco: Military Architecture in Transition / Ana Lopes and Jorge Correia -- 2. Early Modern Fortification: The Portuguese Experience and Engineer Education / Margarida Tavares da Conceição and Renata Araújo -- 3. Military Engineers, the Military Revolution, and the Defence of Portugal, 1640-1668 / Lorraine White -- Part 2: Size of the Armies and the Rise of the Fiscal State 4. Army Size, State Expenditure, and Warfare Culture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal / Hélder Carvalhal -- 5. Was there an Early Modern Military Revolution in Mainland Portugal? / Fernando Dores Costa -- 6. "Small Government or Big Government"? Assessing State Expansion in the War for Colonial Brazil / Miguel Dantas da Cruz -- Part 3: Tradition and Innovation in Warfare 7. Transformation of Military Technology in Portugal: The Impact of the Iberian Union on Artillery / Brice Cossart -- 8. Portuguese Military Expeditions to Southeast Asia, 1597-1606 / André Murteira -- 9. Reassessing Portuguese Military Superiority in Asia in the Sixteenth Century - the Case of Land Warfare / Roger Lee de Jesus -- Part 4: Cultural Exchange and Circulation of Military Knowledge 10. The Portuguese Conquest of Angola in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1575-1641). A Military Revolution in West Central Africa? / Miguel Geraldes Rodrigues -- 11. Suppliers, Knowledge Brokers and Brothers-in-arms. Portuguese Aspects of Military Innovation in Makassar / Tristan Mostert -- 12. Military Innovation and Intrastate Warfare: Portuguese Artillery and Sieges During the Woukou Raids of the Mid-Sixteenth Century / Barend Noordam -- 13. The Military Revolution in Global History. East Asian Perspectives / Tonio Andrade -- Bibliography Summary This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to the history of Portugal and its overseas empire. It examines different forms of military change in specifically Portuguese case studies but also adopts a global perspective through the analysis of different contexts and episodes in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Contributors explore whether there is evidence of what could be defined as aspects of a military revolution or whether other explanatory models are needed to account for different forms of military change. In this way, it offers the reader a variety of perspectives that contribute to the debate over the applicability of the military revolution concept to Portugal and its empire during the early modern period. Broken down into four thematic parts and broad in both chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the art of warfare in Portugal and its empire and demonstrates how the military revolution debate can be used to examine military change in a global perspective. This is an essential text for scholars and students of military history, military architecture, global history, Asian history, and the history of Iberian empires Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Hélder Carvalhal is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS), University of Évora. He is a PhD candidate in early modern history at the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History (PIUDHist), between Évora and Lisbon. He is interested in global economic and social history since the 1500s. He has published in journals such as Gender & History and Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. André Murteira is a researcher at Centre for the Humanities- CHAM (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). His MA dissertation was the basis for his published book A Carreira da Índia e o Corso Neerlands̊, 1595-1625 (2012). He has published in journals such as the Journal of Military History. He is interested in the history of Dutch-Iberian conflicts outside of Europe in the seventeenth century. Roger Lee de Jesus is a researcher at Centre for the Humanities - CHAM (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa). He is a PhD candidate at the University of Coimbra interested in the history of Portuguese presence in Asia, from political to military history, especially in the implementation of European institutions and warfare in the Portuguese Estado da Índia (sixteenth century) Print version record Subject Imperialism. HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal. HISTORY -- Military -- General. HISTORY -- Modern -- 16th Century. Imperialism Portuguese colonies SUBJECT Portugal -- Colonies -- History -- 16th century Portugal -- Colonies -- History -- 17th century Portugal -- History, Military -- 16th century Portugal -- History, Military -- 17th century Subject Portugal Genre/Form History Military history Form Electronic book Author Carvalhal, Hélder. editor Murteira, André. editor. Lee de Jesus, Roger, editor ISBN 9781000372823 1000372820 9780429346965 0429346964 9781000372939 1000372936

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