Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660

Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660
Author: Paul E.J. Hammer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351873768

The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war”often described as a ’military revolution’”during the period between 1450 and 1660.

Furies

Furies
Author: Lauro Martines
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1608196186

A forefront Italian Renaissance historian and author of Fire in the City evaluates darker aspects of the Renaissance including the military forces that ravaged Europe and shaped the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, exploring how massive, mobile armies consumed resources, spread disease and innovated violent new weapons.

War In The Early Modern World, 1450-1815

War In The Early Modern World, 1450-1815
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 100015923X

This book presents a collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern period. It also considers the nature and role of technological change, and the relationship between military developments and state-building.

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.

War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2011-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136790861

This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully and develop a monopoly over armed force, the book argues that changes to warfare in South Asia were more gradual, and the result of more complicated socio-economic forces than has been hitherto acknowledged. The book covers the period from 1740, when the British first became a major power broker in south India, to 1849, when the British eliminated the last substantial indigenous kingdom in the sub-continent. Placing South Asian military history in a global, comparative context, it examines military innovations; armies and how they conducted themselves; navies and naval warfare; major Indian military powers - such as the Mysore and Khalsa kingdoms, the Maratha confederacy - and the British, explaining why they succeeded.

War and Society in Early Modern Europe

War and Society in Early Modern Europe
Author: Frank Tallett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2016-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 113472019X

War and Society in Early Modern Europe takes a fresh approach to military history. Rather than looking at tactics and strategy, it aims to set warfare in social and institutional contexts. Focusing on the early-modern period in western Europe, Frank Tallett gives an insight into the armies and shows how warfare had an impact on different social gro

Medieval Warfare 1300–1450

Medieval Warfare 1300–1450
Author: Kelly DeVries
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351918443

War was epidemic in the late Middle Ages. It affected every land and all peoples from Scotland and Scandinavia in the north to the southern Mediterranean Sea coastlines of Morocco, North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East in the south, from Ireland and Spain in the west to Russia and Turkey in the east. Nowhere was peaceful for any significant amount of time. The period also saw significant changes in military theory and practice which altered the ways in which campaigns were conducted, battles fought, and sieges laid; and changes in the leadership, recruitment, training, supply and financing of armies. There were changes in the relationship between those waging warfare, from generals to irregular troops, and the society in which they lived and for or against which they fought; the frequency of popular rebellions and the participation in them by townspeople and peasants; changes in the desire to undertake Crusades, and changes in technology, including but not limited to gunpowder weapons. This collection gathers together some of the best published work on these topics. The first section of seven papers show that throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages generals led and armies followed what are usually defined as "modern" strategy and tactics, contrary to popular belief. The second part reprints nine works that examine the often neglected aspects of the process of putting and keeping together a late medieval army. In the third section the authors discuss various ways that warfare in the fourteenth and fifteenth century affected the society of that period. The final sections cover popular rebellions and crusading.

Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750

Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1780938136

A substantial amount of work has been carried out to explore the military systems of Western Europe during the early modern era, but the military trajectories of the Asian states have received relatively little attention. This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires' military systems and explores the extent of the impact of West European military transition on the extra-European world. Kaushik Roy conducts a comparative analysis of the armies and navies of the large agrarian bureaucratic empires of Asia, focusing on the question of how far the Asian polities were able to integrate gunpowder weapons in their military systems. Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750 offers important insights into the common patterns in war making across the region, and the impact of firearms and artillery.

Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE

Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317586921

This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.

Warfare in Europe 1650792

Warfare in Europe 1650792
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351125974

Scholars have tended to underrate the importance of war in the period 1650-1792, as there is a feeling that periods before and after were more consequential for military development. This collection of essays sets out to address this problem, probing the nature of warfare throughout Europe from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth.