Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Middle Ages

Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Middle Ages
Author: Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Part of the 'Soldiers' Lives Through History' series, this book vividly brings to life the soldier in the Middle Ages, from Scotland to Portugal, and the Mediterranean to the Baltic. All aspects of soldiers' lifes, including weaponry, clothing, medicine, transport, and more, are examined.

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Ancient World

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Ancient World
Author: Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313041997

Once warfare became established in ancient civilizations, it's hard to find any other social institution that developed as quickly. In less than a thousand years, humans brought forth the sword, sling, dagger, mace, bronze and copper weapons, and fortified towns. The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing professional army, military academies, general staffs, military training, permanent arms industries, written texts on tactics, military procurement, logistics systems, conscription, and military pay. By 2,000 B.C.E., war was an important institution in almost all major cultures of the world. This book shows readers how soldiers were recruited, outfitted, how they fought, and how they were cared for when injured or when they died. It covers soldiers in major civilizations from about 4000 B.C.E. to about 450 C.E. Topics are discussed cross-culturally, drawing examples from several of the cultures, armies, and time periods within each chapter in order to provide the reader with as comprehensive an understanding as possible and to avoid the usual Western-centric perspective too common in analyses of ancient warfare.

Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Early Modern World

Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Early Modern World
Author: Dennis E. Showalter
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313333122

A comprehensive guide to the daily lives of European soliders in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries covers the reasons and preparations for war, life in training and on the battlefield, and changes in these routines over the years.

Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World

Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World
Author: Christer Jorgensen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312348199

Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World describes the combat techniques of soldiers in Europe and North America from 1500 to 1763. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles in an era where the musket increasingly came to dominate the battlefield, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages
Author: Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2007-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313042012

The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered and burned. If they did not slaughter the peasants they met, they took them prisoner to be sold as slaves or ransomed at heavy cost. It was a brutal time. Rogers illuminates the history of medieval soldiers in wartime and in peacetime, describing the lives of those who attacked, and those who defended, the fortified castles, towns, and lands of Europe and beyond in the Middle Age.

Renaissance Military Memoirs

Renaissance Military Memoirs
Author: Yuval N. Harari
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781843830641

Renaissance military memoirs studied for what they reveal of contemporary attitudes towards war, selfhood and identity. This is a study of autobiographical writings of Renaissance soldiers. It outlines the ways in which they reflect Renaissance cultural, political and historical consciousness, with a particular focus on conceptions of war, history, selfhood and identity. A vivid picture of Renaissance military life and military mentality emerges, which sheds light on the attitude of Renaissance soldiers both towards contemporary historical developments such as the rise of the modern state, and towards such issues as comradeship, women, honor, violence, and death. Comparison with similar medieval and twentieth-century material highlights the differences in the Renaissance soldier's understanding of war and of human experience.

War and Conflict in the Early Modern World

War and Conflict in the Early Modern World
Author: Brian Sandberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1509503021

In this latest addition to the War & Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, exploring the different forms of warfare including dynastic war, religious warfare, raiding warfare, and peasant revolt that shaped conflicts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He explains how significant social, economic, and political developments transformed warfare on land and at sea at a time of global imperialism and growing mercantilism, forcing states and military systems to respond to rapidly changing situations. Engaging and insightful, War and Conflict in the Early Modern World will appeal to scholars and students of world history, the early modern period, and those interested in the broader relationship between war and society.

The Stuff of Soldiers

The Stuff of Soldiers
Author: Brandon M. Schechter
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501739816

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians. Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, letters to and from the front, diaries, and interviews, The Stuff of Soldiers reveals how the use of everyday items made it possible to wage war. The dazzling range of documents showcases ethnic diversity, women's particular problems at the front, and vivid descriptions of violence and looting. Each chapter features a series of related objects: weapons, uniforms, rations, and even the knick-knacks in a soldier's rucksack. These objects narrate the experience of people at war, illuminating the changes taking place in Soviet society over the course of the most destructive conflict in recorded history. Schechter argues that spoons, shovels, belts, and watches held as much meaning to the waging of war as guns and tanks. In The Stuff of Soldiers, he describes the transformative potential of material things to create a modern culture, citizen, and soldier during World War II.

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
Author: James J. Sheehan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780547086330

An eminent historian offers a sweeping look at Europes tumultuous 20th century, showing how the rejection of violence after World War II transformed a continent.

Reformations

Reformations
Author: Carlos M. N. Eire
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 914
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300220685

This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in new and profound ways, and he demonstrates convincingly that this crucial turning point in history not only affected people long gone, but continues to shape our world and define who we are today. The book focuses on the vast changes that took place in Western civilization between 1450 and 1650, from Gutenberg’s printing press and the subsequent revolution in the spread of ideas to the close of the Thirty Years’ War. Eire devotes equal attention to the various Protestant traditions and churches as well as to Catholicism, skepticism, and secularism, and he takes into account the expansion of European culture and religion into other lands, particularly the Americas and Asia. He also underscores how changes in religion transformed the Western secular world. A book created with students and nonspecialists in mind, Reformations is an inspiring, provocative volume for any reader who is curious about the role of ideas and beliefs in history.