The Military Revolution In Early Modern Europe

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137539186
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe written by Frank Jacob and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the premise that a ‘military revolution’ prompted the major European powers to enter into an era of global hegemony during the early modern period, and suggests that this theory is not supported if we closely examine contemporary historical events. The conquests of Mexico and Peru, arguably the two most important colonial acquisitions by a European power during that era, were accomplished without the technology or tactics that are usually associated with the ‘military revolution’. On the other hand, Japan, Korea, some Indian states and the Ottoman Empire implemented military reforms, both tactical and technological, that are commonly associated with what was considered an exclusively Western approach to warfare. By comparing case studies of the Western and the non-Western world, Frank Jacob and Gilmar Visoni-Alonzo show that the concept of such a ‘military revolution’ is a myth perpetuated by a Eurocentric perspective on history.

Author : Clifford J Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429964811
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Revolution Debate written by Clifford J Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.

Author : Brian Downing
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222185
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Revolution and Political Change written by Brian Downing and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.

Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521514835
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of War written by David Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a substantial reconsideration of early modern warfare and its relationship to the power of the state.

Author : Frank Tallett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134720203
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Society in Early Modern Europe written by Frank Tallett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 groups, as well as on the economy and on patterns of settlement.

Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139915525
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of War written by David Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military responsibility to sophisticated and extensive networks of private enterprise reached unprecedented levels. This included not only the hiring of troops but their equipping, the supply of food and munitions, and the financing of their operations. The book reveals the extraordinary prevalence and capability of private networks of commanders, suppliers, merchants and financiers who managed the conduct of war on land and at sea, challenging the traditional assumption that reliance on mercenaries and the private sector results in corrupt and inefficient military force. In so doing, the book provides essential historical context to contemporary debates about the role of the private sector in warfare.

Author : David Eltis
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781850439608
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-century Europe written by David Eltis and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 1995 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking study represents a new twist in the already complicated debate on military change in the early modern period. Previous writers have for the most part defined a 'military revolution' focused on the seventeenth or even early eighteenth centuries. Eltis suggests that key developments in training, organization, tactics and siege warfare occurred in the sixteenth century and, taken together, these innovations constitute a military revolution, changing the face of war. In England, these changes came later than in the rest of Europe, and in Ireland later still. English writers, in their anxiety to spur their countrymen to adopt the new methods, produced some of the most useful manuals of sixteenth-century Europe. These, together with Italian, Spanish, French and German texts, form the main basis of David Eltis's study, allowing the ideas of contemporaries to be set alongside accounts of actual military conditions in explaining one of the turning points of world military development.

Author : Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Revolution Debate written by Clifford J. Rogers and published by . This book was released on with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul E.J. Hammer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351873768
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660 written by Paul E.J. Hammer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alexander Querengässer
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789256720
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Military Revolution written by Alexander Querengässer and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments in naval warfare. The Hussite Wars and the wars of the Teutonic Order and the Hanseatic League are covered, as is the expansion of Moscow, the Ottomans and Venice, and battles like Aussig (1426), Copenhagen (1428), Chojnice (1454) are discussed alongside Bannockburn and Agincourt. This age witnesses fundamental change. The feudal system of the High Middle Ages crumbled everywhere in Europe due to climatic change, economic crisis and population decline. This triggered a fiscalization of the military organization, the establishment of taxes and representation of the estates. This book argues that these changes are the most fundamental ones in the military and political organization in Europe until the rise of the constitutional state around 1800 and so comes closer to the original concept of a Military Revolution. It also takes a critical look at other often discussed developments of this age, like the Infantry and Artillery Revolution or the decline of cavalry. Combining a chronological and regional narrative with deeper analysis of themes like chivalry, strategy, economic warfare or military publications makes this book an indispensable read for everyone interested in late medieval history.