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War in the early modern world

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A collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern and modern periods.

כותר War in the early modern world / edited by Jeremy Black.
מהדורה 1st ed.
מוציא לאור London : UCL Press
שנה 1999
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Contributors notes
Preface
Chapter One Introduction
The rise of the West
Technological change
Military developments and state-building
Notes
Further reading
General
Important works not covered in other lists include
Chapter Two Warfare at sea 1450-1815
Maritime trade, state formation and warfare at sea
A Eurocentric form of warfare
Constraints on early modern naval warfare: climate, human endurance and technology
Changing frameworks and maritime expansion: warfare at sea, 1450-1650
Bureaucratic battle fleets: warfare at sea, 1650-1720Oceanic and continental power struggles: warfare at sea, 1720-1815
Chapter Three Warfare in Japan 1467-1600
Chapter Four War and warfare in China 1450-1815
The Battle of Tumu to the death of Hideyoshi
The rise of Nurhaci and the Liaodong campaign
The Qing conquest
Yongzheng and Qianlong's reigns
Conclusion
Further Reading
Chapter Five Warhorse and gunpowder in India1 c. 1000-1850
Introduction
The inner frontier
Fitna
The horse-warrior revolution (1000-1200)
Sieges and forts (1200-1400)The false dawn of gunpowder (1400-1750)
The gunpowder revolution (1750-1850)
Elephants and horses
Gunpowder
Fortification and sieges
The military labour market
Regional developments
East India Company
Chapter Six Warfare, slave trading and European influence: Atlantic Africa 1450-1800
The geographical background
The art of war in sixteenth century Africa
Europeans in African war
War and the slave trade
Chapter Seven Ottoman war and warfare 1453-1812
The formative period 1300-1453The imperial age 1453-1566
The limits of empire 1566-1699
The compromise 1699-1812
1300-1453: the formative period
1453-1566: the imperial age
1566-1699: the limits of empire
1699-1812: the compromise
Chapter Eight European warfare 1450-1815
1450-1530
1530-1660
1660-1720
1720-89
1789-1815
Chapter Nine War, politics and the conquest of Mexico
Cortés and the conquest of Mexico1
Explaining the conquest
Reinterpreting the conquest
Chapter Ten European-Native American warfare in North America, 1513-1815Notes
Index
היקף החומר 1 online resource (280 p.)
שפה אנגלית
מספר מערכת 997010711936905171
תצוגת MARC

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